Rape case- Yogi assigns SIT to investigate, BJP MLA still free

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 07:28 PM

Rape case- Yogi assigns SIT to investigate, BJP MLA still free

Lucknow, April 10: The Uttar Pradesh Police on Tuesday set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to look into a girl's accusations that she had been gang raped by a BJP legislator and others and the subsequent death of her father in police custody, officials said.

Additional Director General (ADG) Law and Order Anand Kumar said that the SIT, which will be headed by the SP, Crime, of Lucknow, will look "into the entire gamut of allegations... from the beginning of the issue in June last year (which is when the 18-year-old first complained of rape by Unnao MLA Kuldeep Singh Senger)".

Informed sources said that hugely embarrassed by the developments, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has rolled out a damage control action plan which included ordering the SIT probe, arrest of the BJP legislator's brother and a parallel magisterial inquiry. But BJP MLA has not been arrested yet.

Police has suspended six of its personnel, including station house officer of Makhi and five constables.