An interim bail plea has been filed in the Delhi High Court by Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who is serving life sentence in the Unnao rape case.
Kuldeep Singh Sengar has sought bail from the court to attend his daughter’s marriage ceremony. Sengar’s daughter is to be married on 8 February 2023, whose program will start from 18 January.
Kuldeep Singh Sengar is serving life sentence in the Unnao rape case. The case of rape came to light in the year 2017. On 20 December 2019, Sengar was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Unnao rape case.
The Unnao rape case was a gang rape of a 17-year-old girl on 4 June 2017 in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, India.
On 16 December 2019 ,the former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar was convicted for the rape and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Later it was also found that Sengar was found guilty in the death of the girl’s father in judicial custody.
Sengar is currently booked under two chargesheets . The first charge was filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation on 11 July 2018, accusing the former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Uttar Pradesh Kuldeep Sengar, of the rape.
The second chargesheet was filed two days later accusing Sengar, his brother, three policemen and five other individuals of framing the rape survivor’s father as the perpetrator.
The rape survivor attempted to immolate herself at the residence of Yogi Adityanath, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, on 8 April 2018. Her father died in judicial custody shortly thereafter. These incidents brought public attention to the case, and the incident was widely reported on in the national media in April 2018 .