Unnao Rape Case: Delhi High Court Grants Interim Bail To Ex-BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar For Daughter's Wedding

The Delhi High Court on Monday granted interim bail to former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in Unnao rape case, to allow him attend his daughter’s wedding.

A division bench of Justice Mukta Gupta and Justice Poonam A. Bamba granted interim bail to Sengar for a period of 15 days - January 27 to February 10.

Advocate Kanhaiya Singhal appeared for Sengar in the matter.

The victim was repeatedly gang raped in 2017 by former MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar and his accomplices, when she was a minor.

Sengar was convicted for raping the victim and for murdering her father in connivance with police officers of Makhi, a village in Unnao district. He has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

The trial in the matter was transferred to Saket Courts by the Supreme Court in 2019 in the transfer petition moved by the survivor.

The apex court, taking cognisance of the rape survivor's letter written to then Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, had transferred all five cases registered in connection with the incident from a Lucknow court in Uttar Pradesh to the court in Delhi with directions to hold the trial on a daily basis and completing it within 45 days.

Title: Kuldeep Singh Sengar v. CBI 

Citation: 2023 LiveLaw (Del) 46