VARANASI: The CBI's early morning swoop took place a day after the Allahabad HC came down heavily on the
Yogi Adityanath government over the case, asking it whether it proposed to arrest the accused
MLA as promptly as it did in other cases. A
CBI team along with UP cops picked him up from an
Indiranagar residence of his relative in Lucknow at around 4:30am. Sengar was taken to the CBI headquarters in
Hazratganj where he was interrogated till late in the evening.
His family said he had planned to leave for Varanasi for a visit to Kal Bhairav temple but was asked by the CBI to join the probe. The central agency team converted three FIRs earlier filed by the Unnao police to move ahead in the case.
According to the CBI press release, the first FIR was about the alleged rape of the girl, in which Sengar and a woman,
Shashi Singh, had been named as accused. The second one was about rioting, in which four locals have been booked, and also the alleged killing of the victim's father in judicial custody. Since the murder charge was added later by the police, it does not reflect in the CBI FIR.
The third case deals with allegations against the survivor's father who was arrested under Arms Act and put in jail by the local police where he died in custody. He also suffered 18 serious injuries as per the post mortem report.
The victim has alleged that she was raped by the MLA at his residence on June 4, 2017 where she had gone with a relative seeking a job. She tried to immolate herself in front of the CM's residence in Lucknow on April 8 after repeated pleas for justice were not heeded.
Sengar was kept at the CBI office in Lucknow till late in the night.