Even as the CBI challenged before the Supreme Court the Delhi High Court order suspending the life sentence and granting bail to expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the Unnao rape case, the survivor claimed that if the CBI had stood with her lawyer, the accused would not have been granted bail.
Sengar had filed an appeal against his life sentence, which was vehemently opposed by the CBI and the survivor’s family before the high court.
"Had the CBI stood with my lawyer, we wouldn't have had to see this day. We would have won, and they would have lost. Their family is bursting crackers. But ask my family. My father was killed. My husband and I were fired from our jobs. What will we eat? Where do we go? I have two newborns," news agency ANI quoted the survivor as saying.
Calling it an injustice that "one family was intimidated while the other was given a free pass," she alleged that "this means that the judge has taken so much money that there is no limit. Call the judge; I will confront him. This is my right..."
The mother of the survivor too said they will trust the CBI only if the agency officials meet them. “How can we trust them otherwise?” she asked. "We have not discussed the CBI... We have only said that the IO (investigating officer) met them. He was talking to Kuldeep Sengar's daughter. When we asked him whether he knew the victim, he said, ‘Why would I know her?’ He said this in a crowded court," she was quoted as saying.
Normally, when two parties are on the same side, they will file a petition after discussing or at least consulting with each other to coordinate, the lawyer of the Unnao rape case survivor observed.
"The CBI is carrying out all these activities, which are incomprehensible to the average citizen, in a very cunning manner, and we are countering this as strongly and forcefully as we can at our level. We have filed a caveat so that we can at least know what the CBI has filed, so that we can file our petition accordingly," he was quoted as saying.
The CBI had filed a Special Leave Petition in the apex court against the order of the high court.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday suspended the jail term of Sengar, who was serving life imprisonment in the 2017 Unnao rape case, saying he had already served seven years and five months in prison.
Sengar's sentence was suspended till the pendency of his appeal challenging his conviction and sentence in the rape case.
