New Delhi – Kuldeep Singh Sengar, a former BJP leader who was kicked out of the party, has asked the Delhi High Court for a five-month extension of his temporary bail due to health issues related to the Unnao rape case from 2017. The court had already granted him temporary bail until December 20 but is now looking at his request again.
A panel of judges asked for a health report from the doctors at AIIMS, a big hospital, and noted that many visitors were coming to see Sengar, which was affecting his medical care. However, Sengar’s lawyer argued that only family members had visited him during his evaluation.
Sengar is serving a 10-year prison sentence for the death of the father of the Unnao rape survivor, who died in police custody after being arrested on Sengar’s orders. The survivor, who was a minor at the time, was allegedly kidnapped and raped by Sengar in 2017. The courts had also given prison sentences to Sengar’s brother and others involved in the case.
Currently, Sengar has an appeal pending to have his conviction overturned. The Supreme Court ordered the rape and related cases to be moved to Delhi from Uttar Pradesh for a fair trial.
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