CBI books MLA Sengar, 9 others on murder charges

New Delhi: The CBI has booked Uttar Pradesh MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar and nine others on murder charges in connection with the truck-car collision that left the woman who had accused the legislator of rape critically injured, officials said on Wednesday.
A special team formed by the agency to probe the case reached the accident site in the Gurubakshganj area of Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli district. A speeding truck hit the car in which the rape victim was travelling from her home in Unnao to Rae Bareli on Sunday, killing two relatives and leaving her and a lawyer critically injured.
“The CBI has constituted a team for speedy and smooth investigation of the case,” the agency’s spokesperson said here. The team inspected the crime scene, the truck which had hit the white Maruti Swift car. The accident took place when the woman, who has accused the BJP MLA of raping her when she was a minor on the pretext of arranging a job for her, was returning after meeting her uncle Mahesh Singh lodged in the Rae Bareli prison.
The BJP claimed that it had suspended the MLA from the party after the allegations surfaced last year. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is probing the rape case as well, has already filed a charge sheet against the MLA and his kin. The number plate of the truck, which was coming from the opposite direction on the wrong side, was smeared with black paint, according to eyewitnesses.
The CBI team also spoke to police officers who were the first respondents after the accident was reported. The team will also record statements of the police officers in the security cover of the woman and will seek their responses why they did not accompany the victim on Sunday when the accident took place, agency sources said.
According to normal procedure, the CBI has taken over the investigation into the case from the Uttar Pradesh Police by re-registering its FIR. The accident FIR was first registered by the UP Police on a complaint by Singh, who is lodged in the Rae Bareli prison. After her niece accused Sengar of raping her, Singh was slapped with multiple false case by people close to Sengar, Singh alleged. The police had arrested Singh and he was transferred to Rae Bareli prison. (PTI)