Unnao rape case: Survivor moves Supreme Court seeking transfer of case to Delhi

The Unnao rape survivor has filed a transfer petition in the Supreme Court seeking the transfer of a criminal case filed against her in Unnao district Uttar Pradesh to DelhiApproaching the top court she submitted that a nonbailable warrant NBW was issued against her by the Unnao ACJM court in an FIR filed by the father of Shubham Singh one of three men currently facing trial in New Delhi for the gang rape of the survivorShe has called the case filed by the father of Singh alleging that a proof of age document provided by her to the police was forged a counterblast FIRShe said that the case before the Unnao court is being pursued with the oblique motive to intimidate silence and harass her and claimed that there is a grave threat to her life in UnnaoThe criminal case in Unnao may be transferred to Delhi to prevent the judicial process from becoming an instrument of oppression and harassment The transfer of the trial to Delhi will not prejudice the respondents whatsoever and the same is in the interest of justice equity and due process stated the plea while seeking transfer of the caseAlso Read Friend moves Delhi High Court to stop man from going abroad for euthanasiaThe plea stated that she has filed an application before the ACJM Unnao for cancellation or withdrawal of the NBWs saying that she is willing to appear before the court through video conferencingThe plea further submitted the countercase is an abuse of the criminal justice process to drag her out of New Delhi and bring her to Unnao where she will not only be at grave risk of harm and injury but also tormented by the memory of being repeatedly rapedThere is a clear grave and real risk to the personal safety and life of the petitioner if she is forced to appear before and face a criminal trial in Unnao district where she was repeatedly raped and gangraped in 2017 by powerful people enjoying political and social clout who also deviously murdered the petitioners father with the connivance of police officers of PS Makhi the plea submittedThe woman was kidnapped and raped by former BJP legislator Kuldeep Singh in 2017 when she was a minorOn August 1 2019 the apex court had transferred five cases pertaining to the rape and gang rape of the petitioner as well as the murder and custodial death of her father was transferred from Uttar Pradesh to Delhi It had ordered the trial to be finished within 45 daysThe Supreme Court had also directed that the survivor her mother and other members of the family be provided security by the Central Reserve Police Force CRPFOn December 20 2019 Sengar was sentenced to jail for the remainder of his natural biological life in the rape case Sengar was convicted under Section 376 IPC and sections 5c and 6 of the POCSO ActOn March 4 2020 Sengar his brother and five others were convicted for the death of the rape survivors father in judicial custody and were sentenced to 10 years imprisonmentThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever