India, Dec. 25 -- Amid a row over the Delhi high court's conditional bail to expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the Unnao rape case, a minister in Uttar Pradesh urged the survivor's family to not worry about their safety.

Citing the court's directives over Kuldeep Sengar's bail, UP minister Om Prakash Rajbhar said that the convict was asked to stay at least five kilometres away from the survivor's family. "While protesting in Delhi, the police told the family that if the court has made this arrangement, then how can they be unsafe?" Rajbhar was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.

The minister's remarks came amid the rape survivor and family's grave concerns over the suspension of Kuldeep Sengar's jail ...