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Unnao: The father of 18-year-old woman from Uttar Pradesh's Unnao, who had alleged rape and attempted suicide along with her family members by trying to immolate herself outside Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's home on Sunday, died on Monday morning at the district hospital. The 18-year-old woman had alleged that she was raped by BJP MLA from Unnao in Uttar Pradesh Kuldeep Singh Sengar and his brother in 2017, but the police refused to take any action or register any case against them. The girl’s father, who was arrested in a case registered against him on April 3 – for voluntarily causing hurt, intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace and the sections of arms Act – was taken to the Unnao district hospital on Sunday night after he complained of abdominal pain and vomiting. Dr Atul of Unnao district hospital told the news agency that the woman’s father was admitted to hospital on Sunday night by police after he complained of abdominal pain and vomiting. Later in the day, the girl told the media that in June last year she was taken to MLA’s residence where he sexually assaulted her and her family was later threatened. While no case was registered in that matter as there already was a case registered earlier in which a charge-sheet was filed and three were sent to jail. The family further alleged that the MLA's brother had thrashed the woman's father on April 3 for refusing to cancel the FIR, but the Police booked the father instead, and locked him up for a period of one year. Speaking to media, Rajiv Krishan, Additional District General, Lucknow zone told ANI that the case has been transferred to Lucknow and the allegations can be proved only after a thorough probe.”

Krishnan added the woman’s family has accused Sengar of raping her.
A day after a woman and her family tried to burn themselves in protest alleging she was raped by a local official and her husband murdered whilst in custody, six policemen are arrested in Unnao, India.