‘Move Kuldeep Sengar to Delhi for fair probe, trial,’ say Unnao rape victim’s kin

Copies of the letter were been sent to the offices of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Principal Secretary (home) and also ADG (Law and Order), the victim’s uncle said on Saturday.

Sengar and his co-accused Shashi Singh, Sengar’s brother Atul Singh and four others who are accused in the case relating to the murder of the victim’s father are lodged in Unnao district jail.

“As long as MLA Kuldeep Singh is present in Uttar Pradesh, no resident of Unnao will give a statement against him (MLA). People will come out (to testify in the case) and the CBI will proceed in the right direction only after he is shifted to Delhi,” the uncle told The Indian Express.

“In the MLA’s absence, his associates will also not muster courage to threaten the witnesses here. In the letter sent to the President, Prime Minister and Chief Justices of India and Allahabad High Court, I have requested them to move the MLA to Delhi for a fair probe,” he said. “I have also decided to move the Allahabad High Court with the same demand.”

The Allahabad HC, which took cognisance of the rape and murder case based on a letter from a lawyer and treated it as a PIL, had directed the CBI to submit the status report of the investigation on May 2.

The victim and her family is still staying at a government-run guesthouse in Unnao; they said they are apprehensive of attack from the accused MLA’s aides.

“We still fear being harassed by the MLA’s associates. We are not returning home to avoid any attack,” the uncle said. He also denied the “false propaganda” being spread by some people on social media claiming that the victim refused to undergo narco test.

“All my family members are ready to undergo the narco test. The CBI has so far recorded our statements. They (investigators) never sought our consent for the narco test,” he said.

The uncle said that Unnao jail is hardly 500 metres from the family’s home in Unnao city, and they fear the accused, being a powerful man, can get his people to harm them. While the uncle alleged that he has “come to know” that Unnao jail superintendent, A K Singh, is a relative of the accused, Singh denied this.

When contacted, he said that Sengar has been kept separately from other inmates due to security reasons.