Unnao victim raped for 9 days: CBI

Agency to file another chargesheet linked to accident ■

The Unnao rape survivor was allegedly kidnapped and raped for nine days at different places by three people in 2017 when she was a minor, the CBI told a Delhi court on Friday.

The case is different from the alleged sexual assault of the woman by expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in 2017.

A lawyer who is involved in the case said District Judge Dharmesh Sharma, during in-camera proceedings, took cognisance of a chargesheet filed by the CBI in the gangrape case and put up the matter for further hearing on October 15.

Meanwhile, the agency is expected to file another charge sheet in connection with rape victim’s accident case in which two of her relatives were killed on Saturday.

The woman, allegedly raped by BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in 2017 when she was a minor, battled for life after a truck rammed into the car she was travelling in with some family members and her lawyer in Rae Bareli district of Uttar Pradesh on July 28. Two of her aunts died in the road accident. She was airlifted from a hospital in Lucknow and brought to the AIIMS for better care.

In Friday’s chargesheet, the probe agency has named three people — Naresh Tiwari, Brijesh Yadav and Shubham Singh — as accused for the offences under sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 363 (kidnapping), 366 (abducting or inducing woman to compel her for marriage), 376 D (sexual assault by more than one person) of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 3 and 4 (penetrative sexual assault and punishment) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The maximum punishment for the offences is life imprisonment.