Unnao Rape Case: Former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar Held Guilty

Finally, justice is served in the Unnao Rape Case as a Delhi Court has held Former BJP MP Kuldeep Singh Sengar guilty. Expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar was convicted of kidnapping and raping a young girl from Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district two years ago. A Delhi court on Tuesday is likely to decide on the quantum of the sentence that should be granted to expelled to Sengar today.

District Judge Dharmesh Sharma heard the case at Delhi’s Tis Hazari court on a day-to-day basis from August 5 after it was transferred to Delhi from a Lucknow court on the Supreme Court’s directions. He convicted Sengar even though he acquitted Shashi Singh, the co-accused on the benefit of the doubt. Sengar is also accused of hatching a criminal conspiracy against the survivor’s family and causing them harm. He was convicted under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

Reading out his order, district judge Dharmesh Sharma praised the girl and said, “The testimony of the rape survivor, who is now 19, was truthful and unblemished against a powerful person. She was under threat, worried. She is a village girl, not from a cosmopolitan educated area… Sengar was a powerful person. So she took her time. A tirade was unleashed upon the girl and her family members… where imprints of the accused Sengar were quite visible.”

The judge even slammed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), “investigation has suffered from patriarchal approach or inherent outlook to brush the issues of sexual violence against the children under the carpet apart from exhibiting lack of sensitivity and humane approach”.

For the uninitiated, Sengar raped the survivor in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao on June 4, 2017. In April 2018, her father was beaten up by some people, and allegedly framed and arrested in an arms case. The young girl tried to immolate herself outside chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s residence. Her father died in custody. She and her aunts who were traveling with their lawyer were rammed by a truck. Her aunts were killed and she was seriously injured. An FIR was filed and Sengar was booked. He was soon expelled from BJP.

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