Despite The Outrage, Unnao Bats For Rape-Accused Kuldeep Sengar

Villagers speak of once close ties having gone sour between families

- Omar Rashid

A posse of CRPF troops and Uttar Pradesh policemen are spread out outside the abandoned family home of the Unnao rape survivor.

An advertisement on the door speaks of the wiring business run by the uncle of the young woman who remains on life support at the King George’s Medical University in Lucknow.

It is an eerily quiet afternoon, and only a few people are outside their homes.

Across the road stands a large white house with a sizeable temple area and a private school adjoining the compound. This belongs to the expelled BJP MLA and rape accused Kuldeep Singh Sengar.

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The sprawling compound is a testament to Sengar’s dominant position in the village, located 75 km west of Lucknow.

The MLA, now at Sitapur jail, is charged with raping the young woman, the custodial death of her father and allegedly plotting the car collision in Rae Bareli, which resulted in serious injuries to the survivor and her lawyer and the death of her two aunts.