Rape accused MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar (File Photo | PTI) 
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Unnao rape accused MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar's arms licences revoked

The Bangarmau MLA was arrested by the CBI on April 13, 2018, on rape charges and is lodged in the Sitapur district jail.

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UNNAO: Arms licences of expelled BJP legislator Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who faces allegations of raping a minor girl and killing her two aunts, have been cancelled, officials said here Saturday.

Sengar had licences to possess a single barrel gun, a rifle and a revolver.

The Bangarmau MLA was arrested by the CBI on April 13, 2018, on rape charges and is lodged in the Sitapur district jail.

The process to cancel his gun licences was underway and on Friday the district magistrate of Unnao ordered revocation of the licences on a demand from the family of the rape survivor.

Sengar been charged with raping the young woman in 2017, when she was a minor.

Another case was filed against him after a car carrying the rape survivor met an accident on Sunday in Rae Bareli district.

Two of her aunts died in the truck-car collision and she and her lawyer are in admitted in a Lucknow hospital.

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