INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
BJP lawmaker arrested on rape charges only after the high court's stinging indictment of the state police, was today ordered to spend the
next seven days in custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation, or CBI.The lawmaker was arrested last evening by the CBI on a charge of
raping a 16-year-old girl from Unnao, about 60 km from Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow
The BJP lawmaker has been charged under the stringent sexual offences law to protect children and the penal code.In court on Friday, the
judges noted how the police had not acted on a rape complaint of the 16-year-old girl but rushed to register false cases against her family,
and how her father was thrashed "by the brother and goons of Kuldeep Singh" before being arrested "on a petty offence".Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanath had agreed to transfer the case to the CBI this week in face of mounting pressure to crack down on the powerful Unnao lawmaker
A special team that the government had set up to probe the case was disbanded and the state police refused to arrest the lawmaker, because
the case was going to be probed by the CBI.All this week, Kuldeep Singh Sengar has strutted around denying the accusation, disparaging the
girl and her family and hitting out at the media in the Unnao rape case
During that time, his brother Atul Singh was arrested for a brutal assault on the girl's father, who was not just arrested with severe
wounds on his body but who died last week in custody.On Wednesday night, Sengar made a dramatic appearance outside the house of the police
chief in Lucknow, in a convoy of 20 vehicles
"I have come here because TV channels were saying I will surrender," he appeared to taunt reporters, insisting that he was neither a
