In the recent development in the Unnao rape case, the Supreme Court on Monday ordered to shift the Unnao rape survivor to All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi for further treatment.
A bench headed by Justice Deepak Gupta, ordered the patient to be airlifted from King George’s Medical College in Lucknow to AIIMS Delhi for further treatment, after advocate D Ramakrishna Reddy, representing the survivor, mentioned the matter before it.
The top court underlined that the Unnao rape survivor should be relocated on a condition that she is medically fit for the procedure. Reddy contended that the family of the survivor wanted her to be shifted to AIIMS in Delhi.
Earlier in the day, the apex court had adjourned till August 9 the hearing on her relocation to the national capital, after no one appeared on her behalf in the court.
The survivor and her lawyer are currently undergoing treatment at King George’s Medical University in Lucknow. While the survivor is recovering and has even opened her eyes, her lawyer is in a deep coma, the hospital administration stated in a letter, earlier today.
Meanwhile, Delhi’s Tis Hazari Court ordered to shift accused Kuldeep Singh Sengar and co-accused Shashi Singh to Delhi’s Tihar Jail. Both to be produced before the court again on 7th August.
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Following the accident, the Uttar Pradesh Police filed a murder case against rape accused and lawmaker Kuldeep Singh Sengar and nine others in connection with the accident. The case now stands transferred to the CBI.
Sengar, a lawmaker from Bangermau in Unnao district, was expelled from the BJP, on August 1, in the backdrop of the accident.
He had allegedly raped the girl at his residence in Unnao on June 4, 2017, where she had gone to seek a job. He is currently lodged in Sitapur district jail.
(With ANI inputs)