Unnao (Uttar Pradesh): The condition of the Unnao rape survivor, who met with an accident on Sunday night, has deteriorated on Tuesday. The survivor, who is undergoing treatment at King George's Medical University (KGMU) Hospital in Lucknow, has now been put on a ventilator. According to the doctors, her lungs have been severely injured in the accident.
Meanwhile, the rape survivor's mother has demanded that her daughter be taken to a Delhi hospital for further treatment.
The Delhi Women Commission chief Swati Maliwal also wrote to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath urging him to provide assistance to airlift the rape survivor to New Delhi.
The woman, who has made rape allegation against BJP legislator Kuldeep Singh Sengar, her two aunts and their lawyer met with an accident while on their way to meet a kin lodged in a Rae Bareli jail in a separate case, police said. The car in which they were travelling was hit by a truck in Rae Bareli.
While the two aunts died in the accident, the rape survivor and the lawyer received serious injuries.
The incident dates back to June 2017 when the minor girl alleged rape by the MLA. On April 8, 2018, the survivor attempted to immolate herself outside the residence of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath to draw attention to the case.
The following day, her father was allegedly assaulted by Sengar’s brother and his accomplices in police custody, leading to fatal injuries.
A CBI probe indicted the MLA and several people connected to him of attempts to frame the survivor’s family in order to pressure her to drop the case.
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A witness in the assault, Mohammed Yunus, died a few months later. Sengar has been in prison since outrage over the case grew and federal investigators stepped in.
