The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought the CBI’s response on expelled former Uttar Pradesh BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar’s bail plea, who was convicted in the 2017 Unnao rape case.
The bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Rajnish Bhatnagar issued notice upon the probe agency and the survivor, on the bail plea moved by Sengar in a pending appeal against his conviction in the rape case.
The Bench also issued notice on another application moved by Sengar seeking additional evidence necessary to prosecute his case against the Trial Court’s order.
The matter is slated for next hearing on May 25, 2022.
The instant bail plea has been moved in an appeal challenging the Trial Court’s order sentencing him for life for raping of a 17-year-old girl in 2017.
A Delhi court in December 2019 convicted him in the Unnao rape case, wherein he was sentenced to imprisonment for the remainder of his life, while observing that he a “powerful person and the victim was a village girl, not from a cosmopolitan educated area”. He was further directed to pay a fine of Rs 25 lakh.
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Sengar, a four-time MLA from UP’s Bangermau constituency, was expelled from the BJP in August 2019 after being accused for the offence of rape.
In March 2020, a Special Court sentenced Sengar, his brother Atul Singh and five others to 10 years’ imprisonment in two cases linked to the death of the rape survivor’s father in 2018.