The Delhi High Court on Monday rejected a petition filed by expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar seeking the suspension of his 10-year jail term in a matter pertaining to the custodial death of the complainant’s father in the Unnao rape case, Live Law reported.
This came nearly a month after the High Court on December 23 suspended Sengar’s life sentence in the rape case during the pendency of his appeal against his conviction in the matter. Despite the order, Sengar was to remain in jail as he was also serving the 10-year sentence in connection with the custodial death case.
However, the Supreme Court stayed this High Court order on December 29.
On Monday, Justice Ravinder Dudeja noted that Sengar had spent nearly seven and a half years in custody out of the total punishment of 10 years in the custodial death case and that there had been a delay in deciding his appeal against his conviction, Bar and Bench reported.
However, the judge said that the delay was partly because of Sengar, who has filed several applications.
Dudeja, while rejecting the expelled BJP leader’s petition, took into account his criminal antecedents and also said that there had been no new development in the case, Live Law reported.
The case
In December 2019, a trial court in Delhi convicted Sengar and sentenced...
