Unnao accident: CBI officials reach Sitapur jail to collect visitor logs

New Delhi: Members from the special CBI team constituted for finishing the Unnao rape victim's accident probe in a speedy manner, on Saturday, visited the Sitapur jail in Uttar Pradesh, where the rape-accused MLA, Kuldeep Singh Sengar is currently lodged.

According to sources in the know, officials from the Central Bureau of Investigation visited the jail complex to gather information about visitor logs and speak to jail officials in connection with the accident case.

Investigators probing the case are now looking to find out who Sengar met with, in the days before the accident on Sunday, where the rape victim herself was critically injured and two of her aunts were killed.

The teenager's car was hit by a truck, which had its number plates blackened.

With a special CBI court in the state having cleared the decks for CBI officials to question Sengar and his brother Atul Sengar, Sengar was also reportedly questioned by probe officials in the jail.

The central probe agency had filed a chargesheet last July, against Sengar for raping the teenager and another one against Atul for the murder of the rape victim's father, who was killed in custody of UP Police.

And as the CBI investigation in the case is picking up pace, Sengar's arms license which was active for more than a year after he was first arrested by the agency for rape, was cancelled recently, after the concerned DM ordered the revocation on Friday.

Meanwhile, the Unnao rape victim, who is still in critical condition at the KGMU Hospital in Lucknow has developed pneumonia, according to her doctors, further complicating her condition.

Because of pneumonia, the rape victim has a fever and is being medicated to keep her blood pressure under control. With oxygen being supplied to her through a tube in her windpipe, doctors have said that she is stable but still not out of danger.

While the 19-year-old woman is still on life support, her lawyer, who was driving the car when the truck hit them, is now breathing on his own.

Giving the CBI a strict deadline to complete its probe, the Supreme Court of India had suggested that both the rape victim and her lawyer can be airlifted to AIIMS here if their families wanted, provided their medical condition allowed them to.

However, the mother of the Unnao rape victim had told the court a day later that it would be better if the treatment continued at the Lucknow hospital.