In December 2018, an FIR was 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 had ordered registration of a case against the three on a complaint by the father of the accused Shubham.

Frustrated with the alleged police inaction and coercion from influential people, the then minor victim had attempted self-immolation in front of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's residence on 8 April 2018.

The victim's father was booked by the police under the Arms Act on 3 April 2018 and jailed on 5 April, where he died on 9 April.

A video purportedly showing the victim's father before his death, accusing the MLA's brother of assaulting him, had then gone viral.

Sengar's brother Atul Singh was arrested along with four others by the UP Crime Branch, for allegedly thrashing the victim's father.

The state government had transferred the case to the CBI nearly 10 months after the crime.