While the Uttar Pradesh government announced that it will bear all medical expenses for treatment of both the injured in the Rae Bareli accident case, Juhie Singh former chairperson of the state's Commission for Child Rights said that the family is paying the bills on its own.
"They have shown bills for medicines which they are buying from shops outside the hospital premises," Singh said.
Unnao rape survivor and her lawyer are admitted at the trauma centre of Lucknow's King George's Medical University after receiving grievous injuries in a road accident on Sunday.
Earlier the state government had requested the vice-chancellor of KGMU to forward details of all the expenses done so far for payment to Lucknow district administration and not to charge anything from the families of the injured people.
The mother of the survivor had also said that they need better treatment, which is not possible at KGMU. She said that her daughter is in a critical condition. "My daughter was making some sounds yesterday. Today she is completely silent. She is breathing but I am not sure she will live. She is on oxygen support," she said.
The Unnao victim, two of her aunts and their lawyer sustained serious injuries in the accident, which occurred as an over-speeding truck hit the car they were travelling.
The rape survivor, who is now 19 years old, lost two aunts in the accident while she and her lawyer received critical injuries.
BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar is an accused in the rape case. He was arrested on April 13 last year.
The mother had alleged that Sengar, a four-time MLA who represents Bangermau in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, raped her daughter at his residence in 2017 when she was 17.
The case hit headlines after the survivor allegedly attempted self-immolation outside Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's residence seeking justice.
—With inputs from Puja Awasthi
