Filed 35 complaints: Unnao rape survivor's kin

LUCKNOW: A relative of the Unnao rape survivor revealed to TOI on Tuesday that the family had sent 35 written complaints to the local police and administration in the last one year expressing fear that they would be targeted by the henchmen of jailed BJP MLA and rape-accused Kuldeep Singh Sengar. However, no action was taken by the police, the relative said.
"We've been living in fear and continued facing life threats ever since the CBI took over the case last year and arrested the MLA. There is so much fear that we even left our house in Makhi in Unnao district," the relative said.
These revelations - coming on a day when Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi sought a report on a letter written to him by the survivor's family members alleging threats from Sengar - have put UP police in a fix and jolted them into action.
Unnao SP MP Verma admitted police received 33 complaints. "But they were dismissed as they were unfounded and lacked merit," he said. However, his senior, additional director general of police (Lucknow zone) Rajeev Krishna, struck a different note saying that the complaints would now be re-examined.
"We will reassess all complaints filed by the kin of the rape survivor since last one year. If any laxity of district police comes to the fore, action will be initiated against the guilty," he told TOI.
"IGP (Lucknow range) SK Bhagat was sent to Unnao district on Monday night to reassess all complaints given by the family," he added. Elaborating on the complaints, the relative said they were sent through registered post and even uploaded on the government's integrated grievance redressal system (IGRS). "Sengar's henchmen even came in the presence of security guards and threatened us. We made videos of these incidents and showed them to police, but the Makhi SHO did not register a case," he said.
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References

1. ^{^} Unnao rape survivor (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
2. ^{^} Kuldeep Singh Sengar (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
3. ^{^} CBI (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
4. ^{^} Unnao (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
5. ^{^} Ranjan Gogoi (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
6. ^{^} UP police (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

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