Delhi HC can provide intervening time bail to Unnao rape convict Kuldeep Sengar

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday granted period in-between bail to former Uttar Pradesh BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who is sentenced to lifestyles time period imprisonment for raping a minor woman in Unnao in 2017, in view of his daughter’s marriage.

A bench of Justice Mukta Gupta, however, raised a challenge announcing that Sengar daughter’s wedding ceremony ceremonies have been scheduled for so many days and the entirety can be done in a few days.

Counsel representing Sengar submitted earlier than the court docket that he is the father and the ceremony dates are given via the pujari.

The HC, on December 22, 2022, issued observe and directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to confirm the statistics of Sengar’s bail plea and area a repute file on record.

A division bench of Justices Gupta and Poonam A. Bamba had directed the CBI.

On December 19, Sengar had sought two months’ intervening time bail from the court docket for attending his daughter’s wedding, which is scheduled on February 8, 2023, and ceremonies will begin on January 18.

Sengar’s plea towards the trial court’s order in the rape case is pending in the excessive court, with him having sought reliefs like quashing of the trial court’s December 16, 2019 judgment, which convicted him, and the December 20, 2019 order sentencing him to imprisonment until the relaxation of his life.

The trial court docket had convicted Sengar beneath a number of provisions, which include Section 376 (2) (rape dedicated by means of a public servant) of IPC and additionally imposed an exemplary best of Rs 25 lakh on him.

The trial began on August 5, 2019, after the Supreme courtroom on August 1 directed to switch all 5 instances associated to the count number from Unnao to Delhi.

The pinnacle courtroom had directed to keep trial on a every day groundwork and whole it inside forty five days.