Srinagar: Following uproar over rape allegations levelled by a 17-year-old minor on Bangarmau BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested him from his Lucknow residence in the wee hours of Friday, Time of India reported.
The arrest coms a day after the Allahabad High Court lashed Yogi Adityanath government over Unno case, asking it whether it proposes to arrest accused MLA as promptly as it does in other cases.
“A CBI team along with UP cops picked him up from an Indiranagar residence of his kin at around 4:30am. Sengar was taken to the CBI headquarters in Hazratganj in Lucknow,” TOI report said.
The victims father was thrashed allegedly by the brother of the MLA and police to the contrary had arrested the father of the girl. He later died in police custody.
