CBI’S PROBE SAYING NO FOUL PLAY IN UNNAO RAPE SURVIVOR’S ACCIDENT UPHELD

NEW DELHI : A Delhi court has upheld the investigation conducted by the CBI that had ruled out any foul play in the Unnao rape survivor’s accident in 2019.

In 2019, the rape survivor, her family, and lawyer were travelling in a car when it was hit by an overspeeding truck in Rae Bareli, killing two aunts and leaving her and the advocate critically injured.

Pursuant to this, a murder case was filed against expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who was also awarded lifeterm for raping the minor survivor, and nine others after her family filed a complaint alleging “conspiracy” behind the accident. Dismissing these allegations, District and Sessions Judge Dharmesh Sharma held that the objections of the complainant party read like an engrossing thrilling story but were based on mere surmises and conjectures.

He said there were no grounds to suspect the fidelity, accuracy, and sincerity of the CBI investigation and that the agency came out with a plausible version of the incident. The CBI had concluded that there was no evidence regarding criminal conspiracy hatched between those named in the FIR. The judge stated in an order dated July 31, “I have no hesitation in holding the findings of the CBI in the chargesheet, that there is no case against the accused persons so as to take cognisance and proceed against them under Section 302 (murder) and 307 (attempt to murder) read with Section 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), cannot be faulted.”