Unnao rape case: Policeman challenges framing of murder, conspiracy charges against him in Delhi HC

A police constable from Uttar Pradesh moved the Delhi High Court on Wednesday, challenging the framing of charges against him for his alleged involvement in the murder of the Unnao rape complainant’s father, PTI reported. Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva listed Amir Khan’s plea for hearing on Thursday.

The complainant was allegedly raped by Uttar Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar and his aides in 2017, when she was a minor.

Sengar was on August 1 expelled from the BJP. He has been in jail since April 2018.

“The trial judge in the impugned proceedings order and charges framed admitted that there is no role of the petitioner in the conspiracy of assaulting/ beatings to the survivor’s father,” the plea said. “Thus, making the police officials including petitioner [Khan] liable for murder is untenable illegal.” Khan is presently in judicial custody on charges of murder and criminal conspiracy.

The complainant’s father had been falsely booked under the Arms Act and later died in judicial custody last year.

Meanwhile, a lower court in Delhi said on Wednesday that a strict view will be taken against the authorities concerned if the medical superintendent of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences fails to submit a report about the condition of the complainant. The...

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