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  • February 18, 2025
Kuldeep Sengar, convicted of rape, is granted interim bail in connection with the death of the complainant’s father

Kuldeep Sengar, convicted of rape, is granted interim bail in connection with the death of the complainant’s father

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday granted 10-day interim bail to expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in a case related to the custodial death of the father of a woman against whom he was convicted of rape . Live the law reported.

In December 2019, Kuldeep Singh Sengar was convicted and sentenced to life for raping a woman in Unnao in Uttar Pradesh in 2017. She was a minor at the time.

In March 2020, Kuldeep Singh Sengar and his brother Jaideep Singh Sengar, among others, were sentenced to ten years in prison for their involvement in the death of the woman’s father in judicial custody.

The former MLA recently approached the division bench of the Supreme Court interim suspension of his sentence on medical grounds, PTI reported.

Judge Manoj Kumar Ohri on Tuesday granted Kuldeep Singh Sengar’s plea and temporarily suspended his sentence, said Live the law. The court noted that he was recently awarded similar compensation in the rape case by a division bench.

The Delhi High Court had on December 5 granted two-week interim bail to Kuldeep Singh Sengar to undergo medical procedure.

On Tuesday, Ohri ordered Sengar’s release on a personal bond of Rs 50,000 and a surety of the same amount.

The woman’s father was arrested in April 2018 in an illegal weapons case, in which he was later framed. He died in judicial custody in Unnao on April 9, a day after his daughter tried to set himself on fire outside Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath’s house to protest the lack of action against Kuldeep Singh Sengar. A few days later, a murder case was filed against Sengar, his brother and nine others.

In March 2020, a Delhi court convicted Kuldeep Singh Sengar of culpable homicide, not amounting to murder, over the death of the woman’s father.

The woman and her family had been granted security following a High Court order in July 2019. The court had found at the time that there was a threat to them and the life of her lawyer.

This came after the woman and her lawyer were seriously injured in a car accident. Her family had alleged that Sengar was behind the accident. Two of the woman’s relatives, one of whom was a witness in the rape case, were killed.