NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Tuesday granted conditional bail to expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar and suspended his jail sentence in the Unnao rape case.Also Read | ‘Put us in jail for safety’: Unnao rape survivor’s sister on HC relief for Kuldeep Sengar; ex-BJP leader’s life term suspendedA bench of Justices Subramonium Prasad and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar suspended Sengar’s sentence for the duration of the pendency of his appeal challenging his December 2019 conviction and life sentence awarded by a trial court.Also Read | The high court ordered Sengar’s release subject to furnishing a Rs 15-lakh personal bond with three sureties of the same amount.
It also imposed strict conditions, directing Sengar not to enter within a five-kilometre radius of the survivor’s residence and not to threaten or influence the survivor or her mother. The bench warned that violation of any of the conditions would lead to cancellation of bail.Sengar was convicted for kidnapping and raping a minor girl in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district in June 2017.On August 1, 2019, the Supreme Court transferred the rape case and other related matters from Uttar Pradesh to Delhi.Sengar’s appeal against his conviction in the case relating to the custodial death of the survivor’s father is also pending before the high court. He was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment and has sought suspension of that sentence on the ground that he has already undergone a “substantial period of incarceration.”(With PTI inputs)
