In its letter, the CBI has underlined lapses in dealing with the rape case. (File)
New Delhi:
The CBI has really useful “applicable motion” in opposition to 4 officers, together with an IAS officer, citing lapses in dealing with the case of rape of a minor woman by former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, officers mentioned on Wednesday.
The central company, in its letter to the UP Authorities in August, has named the then District Justice of the Peace Unnao and IAS officer Aditi Singh, the then Superintendent of Police and IPS officers Pushpanjali Devi and Neha Pandey posted in Unnao between 2017 and 2018 in addition to ASP Ashtbhuja Singh who was promoted to IPS in 2019, they mentioned.
In its letter, the company has underlined lapses in dealing with the rape case of the minor at Sengar’s residence in Makhi village, Bangarmau, Unnao, by the MLA and subsequent harassment of the household by his henchmen, they mentioned.
The CBI has not sought any disciplinary motion as a substitute it has solely highlighted the lapses beneath these officers and left it on the Uttar Pradesh Authorities to take “applicable motion” within the gentle of the company’s observations, they mentioned.
Aditi Singh, a 2009-batch IAS officer, is presently the DM of Hapur. She was posted as DM, Unnao between January 24, 2017, and October 25, 2017, and the sufferer had written a lot of letters to her concerning the trauma suffered by her by the hands of the highly effective ruling occasion MLA however no substantial motion was taken, they mentioned.
Neha Pandey, a 2009 batch IPS officer, is presently posted as Assistant Director within the Intelligence Bureau. She was the Superintendent of Police in Unnao between February, 2016 and October, 2017 and allegedly ignored plea of minor woman who was raped in June, 2017, they mentioned.
Pushpanjali Devi, a 2006 batch IPS officer and presently DIG railways, succeeded Pandey and remained SP within the district until April 30, 2018. She additionally allegedly didn’t pay any heed to prayers of the sufferer whose father was additionally framed in an arms act case and was crushed to demise within the jail in April, 2018, they mentioned.
The then ASP Ashtbhuja Singh, now posted as Commandant PAC Fatehpur, was additionally posted in Unnao in the course of the interval however allegedly didn’t take sufficient motion on the complaints in opposition to Sengar, they mentioned.
Final yr in December, a Delhi courtroom had convicted Sengar for raping the minor woman in Unnao in 2017 saying the sufferer’s testimony was “truthful and unblemished” in opposition to a “highly effective individual”.
The courtroom had sentenced Sengar to life imprisonment for rape beneath the Indian Penal Code and the POCSO Act for offence of a public servant committing penetrative sexual assault in opposition to baby.
Convicting Sengar, 53, beneath the Safety of Kids from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the courtroom had mentioned the CBI proved that the sufferer was a minor.
“I discovered her assertion truthful and unblemished that she was sexually assaulted. She was beneath menace, apprehensive. She is a village woman, not from cosmopolitan educated space… Sengar was highly effective individual. So she took her time..,” the choose had mentioned.
The courtroom had famous that after the sufferer wrote letter to the UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, a number of legal circumstances had been filed in opposition to her household and “imprints of Sengar” had been seen in them.
