The Uttar Pradesh Police are investigating the Unnao rape case (Representational)
The Unnao rape survivor was allegedly kidnapped and raped for nine days at different places by three people in 2017 when she was a minor, the CBI told a Delhi court on Friday. The case is different from the alleged sexual assault on her by expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in 2017.
A lawyer who is involved in the case said district judge Dharmesh Sharma, during in-camera proceedings, took note of a charge-sheet filed by the CBI in the gang-rape case and put up the matter for further hearing on October 15.
In its charge-sheet, the probe agency named three people - Naresh Tiwari, Brijesh Yadav and Shubham Singh - as accused, and also charged them under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. The maximum punishment for the offence is life imprisonment.
Quoting the rape survivor's statement recorded before a judicial magistrate in Unnao, the CBI said on June 11, 2017, she had come out of her house to fetch water at night when Singh and Tiwari, along with three others, pulled her inside a car.
After covering some distance, Singh and Tiwari allegedly raped her in the car, according to the charge-sheet. She was taken to a house on the way to Kanpur where two unknown persons, with muffled faces, allegedly raped her, it said.
After two-three days, she was taken to Yadav's house, where he allegedly raped her. Then two days later, she was taken to Auraiya district in Uttar Pradesh from where she was recovered by the police, the charge-sheet said.
The CBI said further investigation is going on in the case regarding the role of the other accused. The probe agency has named 103 witnesses to be examined in the case which has been transferred to Delhi on the orders of the Supreme Court.