All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee strongly criticized the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after former MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar got bail in the 2017 Unnao rape case. He accused the BJP of complete silence after the Delhi High Court order and said that this is the reality of ‘save the girl child’ in BJP ruled states.
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has decided to file a special leave petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court challenging the Delhi High Court’s order suspending Sengar’s sentence and granting him bail in the 2017 Unnao rape case.
The victim of the 2017 Unnao rape case has expressed grief over the Delhi High Court’s verdict and questioned the role of CBI in the case. “I am saddened by such a verdict being pronounced. This is the first case in the country where a rape accused has been granted bail and sentencing has been stayed,” she told ANI.
The victim said, “What was the CBI doing earlier? My lawyer Mahmood Pracha will file a petition to overturn the High Court order and I hope to get justice from the Supreme Court.”
Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday strongly criticized the court’s bail order and slammed the government over the Delhi Police’s response to the victim’s protest. “We are not only becoming a dead economy, but with such inhumane incidents, we are also turning into a dead society,” he said in a post on
A division bench of the Delhi High Court, comprising Justices Subramaniam Prasad and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar, suspended the life sentence of Kuldeep Singh Sengar and granted him bail. He has been granted relief on the condition of depositing a bail bond of Rs 15 lakh. However, he has not yet been granted bail in the case of custodial death of the victim’s father, hence he will remain in custody. His appeal and application to suspend his sentence are pending in the Delhi High Court. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in that case.
While granting bail, the High Court directed that Sengar not enter within a radius of 5 kilometers of the victim’s residence. It was also directed that Sengar should remain in Delhi. They should not contact the victim’s family.
