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As We Focus On Kathua Rape Case, Here's What Is Happening To Accused BJP MLA In Unnao Rape Case
Indiatimes | Updated: April 18, 2018

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Justice for Asifa has become a household campaign and people are not only talking about it but have come on the streets as well. Unnao rape case, too, has been able to shake the people’s conscience about how high and mighty can get away after committing a crime as big as rape.

Unnao rape accused BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar has been arrested by CBI after people protested and the issue became a political headache for the ruling BJP and CM Yogi Aditynath. Now the accused MLA has been sent to CBI custody for seven days. Here is the timeline of the Unnao case which has once again provided fodder to a notion that if you are rightly placed, law just can’t give justice to the victim.

June 2017: Minor girl in Unnao district in Uttar Pradesh alleged rape by BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, his brothers and others.

June 2017 - April 2018: The victim’s family accused they police refused to lodge their FIR. The family approached the court and hearing is going on.

April 3, 2018: The fight between girl’s family and accused and his goons left the victim’s father injured. Two complaints filed, each by both sides, but police acts only on one complaint and arrests the victim’s father and lock him up.

April 8, 2018: Girl tried to set herself ablaze in front of CM residence in Lucknow and accused him of shielding the MLA.

April 9, 2018: The victim’s father died in hospital after he was brought to hospital, after vomiting abdominal pain. The police were accused of beating him and six policemen, including the station officer of the area, were suspended.

Police arrested four men accused of assaulting girl’s father and these were associates of MLA Sengar.

April 10, 2018: The autopsy report shows 14 injuries on girl’s father’s body.

April 11, 2018: The UP government ordered the police to handover the case to CBI.

April 12, 2018: After getting the case, the CBI arrested the accused MLA and charged him with minor’s rape.

April 15, 2018: the CBI gets seven-day custody of the MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar.

The accused MLA has said that he will come out clean of all the charges. Let's see, if he does.