In a fresh twist to a rape case allegedly involving BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, an FIR has been lodged on court orders against the victim, her mother and an uncle for producing a forged age certificate to prove she was a minor.
The court ordered registration of a case against the three on a complaint by the father of another rape accused Shubham, who is in jail, said SP Harish Kumar on Thursday.
He said complainant Harpal Singh had alleged that the victim, her uncle and mother had procured a forged age certificate to implicate his son Shubham in the rape case, said Kumar.
The police said the case was registered at the Makhi police station on court’s December 17 order against the family members for various alleged offences of cheatring and forgery.
Complainant Singh had moved the court saying the school transfer certificate, purportedly made by Raebareli school and produced as the age certificate, was forged to frame his son, police said.
The victim’s uncle is presently in jail in connection with another case.
Harpal Singh’s wife Shashi and son Shubham are accused in the rape case and have been in jail since April along with the main accused, BJP legislator Kuldeep Singh Sengar.
Sengar, a four-time MLA, was charged by the CBI with raping the girl at his residence in Makhi village on June 4 last year.
The girl was again abducted and raped by a separate group of accused, allegedly including Harpal Singh’s son Shubhan Singh, his driver Naresh Tiwari and one Brijesh Yadav between June 11 and June 20, 2017.
But in his complaint, Harpal Singh alleged that the victim had an affair with a man named Awadesh Tewari, with whom she had eloped in September 2017, only to return sometime later.
After her return, her family had begun persuading his son Shubham to marry her, alleged Harpal Singh in his complaint.