"We're Answerable To Survivor": What CBI, Supreme Court Said In Unnao Rape Case Hearing
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed a Delhi High Court order suspending ex-BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar's life sentence in the rape case of a woman - then a minor - in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao in 2017.
The high court on December 23 suspended the jail term of Sengar, a former four-time MLA from the Unnao region, till the pendency of his appeal, saying he has already served seven years and five months in prison, and granted him conditional bail. He will, however, remain in jail since he is also serving 10 years' imprisonment in the custodial death case of the survivor's father and has not been granted bail in that case.
A three-judge vacation bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices JK Maheshwari and Augustine George Masih, while hearing a plea by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) challenging the high court order, said 59-year-old Sengar should not be released from custody.
