Unnao rape survivor's accident: Murder case against jailed BJP lawmaker

According to reports, the rape survivors is currently on life support.

“Their condition is critical,” Prof Sandip Tiwari, head of trauma surgery at the King George’s Medical University, was quoted as saying by Hindustan Times.

The police case against the BJP legislator and 10 others who are accused in a rape case filed by the survivor was registered on a complaint by her family who alleged the head-on collision between their car and a truck was a “conspiracy”, reported the newspaper.

With Uttar Pradesh government ready for a CBI probe into the Unnao rape victim accident, the state police has informed the CBI about the accident and a team of the central agency has visited the Trauma centre here on Monday to equire about the incident from the family members.

CBI is already investigating the rape case in which BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Senger is in jail after the agency chargesheeted him in the rape case.

UP government is reported to have informed about the accident of the rape victim to the CBI and had announced to bear all cost of the medical treatment to the victim and her lawyer injured in the accident in Rae Bareli on Sunday in which the victim's two aunts were killed.

Earlier, UP DGP, O P Singh, who had announced that state government has no reservation in going for a CBI probe in the accident if the family wants, also visited Trauma centre to meet the family members.

Commenting on the blacking of the licence plate of the truck, ADG Lucknow Zone Rajeev Krishna said the owner of the truck during the interrogation said as they had not paid the loan for the truck hence they were trying to hide it from the company people they have taken loan to purchase the truck.

Meanwhile, the forensic team of the UP police reached Rae Bareli and were investigating the accident on the spot. They have also checked the ill-fated car and the truck.

On the other hand ,National Commission for Women(NCW) chairperson Rekha Sharma has shot off a letter to the UP government on Monday seeking speedy probe and action against the guilty in the Unnao rape victim accident.

" We have taken suo moto cognizance of media reports. Unnao rape victim injured, her two aunts killed in accident. It's requested to UP government to ensure fair and speedy probe into the matter and take action for the crime committed," the letter said. 

Opposition leaders criticised the Uttar Pradsh government over the incident.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra tweeted: "So a woman is allegedly raped by a BJP MLA. Her father is beaten up and dies in custody. A key witness dies mysteriously last year. Now her aunt who was also a witness is killed and her lawyer is critically injured in an accident caused by a truck with blackened number plates. She herself lies grievously wounded in hospital from the same accident. The accused continues as a BJP legislator, and the BJP State Government has the audacity to run a “भयमुक्त उत्तर प्रदेश” campaign???."

Her brother and party leader Rahul Gandhi said: " Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao A new special education bulletin for Indian women. Don’t ask questions if a BJP MLA is accused of having raped you."

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal tweeted: " Systematic attempts to eliminate the Unnao rape victim and her family appear to be a pre-planned conspiracy & a mockery of rule of law.How can any civilised society allow such state sponsored barbarism ?."