In a rare development, a Delhi court Monday suggested holding part of the proceedings, in-camera, at AIIMS in the 2017 Unnao rape case in which expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar is the key accused.
After the in-camera hearing at the court on Monday, lawyers appearing in the case said that district judge Dharmesh Sharma asked the counsel of the accused whether the statement of the rape survivor could be recorded at AIIMS hospital.
Earlier in the day, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had recorded her statement in the case of the road accident, in which she lost her aunts and her lawyer and herself were injured, officials said on Monday, 2 September.
The rape survivor, who was flown from the King George’s Medical University in Lucknow to AIIMS in Delhi in a critical condition, has shown considerable progress and has been moved to the ward, they said.
“After her condition improved, the agency recorded her statement,” they added.
The survivor, hailing from Unnao, has alleged that Uttar Pradesh MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar had raped her in 2017 when she was still a minor. Sengar was expelled from the BJP last month.
Her uncle has alleged the hand of people close to Sengar in the accident.
“The statement of her lawyer is yet to be recorded as he is still in the Intensive Care Unit in a critical condition,” they said.
The lawyer was in the car with the survivor when a speeding truck approaching in the wrong direction rammed into it in Gurubakshganj in Rae Bareli, about 60 kilometers from state capital Lucknow, resulting in the death of her two aunts, they said.
A few days ago, another gang-rape case in Unnao came to the front where a woman and her mother tried setting themselves on fire outside the district magistrate's office in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, alleging police inaction in the case.
(This copy is an arrangement of two PTI reports)
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