Unnao Survivor Discharged From AIIMS, To Stay in Delhi With Family

SC granted 15 more days to the CBI to complete its probe into the same collision case.
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A speeding truck hit a car carrying the Unnao rape case survivor, critically injuring her and killing two of her relatives.
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A speeding truck hit a car carrying the Unnao rape case survivor, critically injuring her and killing two of her relatives.
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The Unnao rape survivor was discharged from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi on Wednesday, 25 September. She was admitted after she, her family and lawyer met were involved in a collision, reported PTI.

Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court granted 15 more days to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to complete its probe into the same collision case.

Meanwhile, a Delhi court on Wednesday directed technology company Apple to give details of the location of expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar on the day 17-year-old girl was allegedly raped by him, according to PTI.

District Judge Dharmesh Sharma, holding an in-chamber proceedings, directed the iPhone-maker to file the reply by 28 September when it will next hear the matter, a lawyer related to the case said.

The court, meanwhile, recorded the statement of a CISF official in the case related to the murder of the rape survivor's father.

WHAT HAD HAPPENED

On Sunday, 28 July, a car carrying the Unnao rape survivor collided with a truck in Raebareli while they were on their way to meet her uncle in a jail in Rae Bareilly, killing her two aunts and critically injuring the survivor and her lawyer Mahendra Singh.

The woman’s family alleged that expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar and his men were behind the collision. CBI later filed an FIR against him and nine others.

She was moved to Delhi’s AIIMS from Lucknow’s KGMU hospital following the accident and the family is under CRPF security as per the Supreme Court's order.

She will now be staying with her family in Delhi after Uttar Pradesh government said they wanted to reside in the national capital apprehending threat in their home state.

The woman was allegedly kidnapped and raped by Sengar in Unnao in 2017, when she was a minor.

(With inputs from PTI)

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Published: 25 Sep 2019,01:47 PM IST

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