Unnao Rape: SC to hear Kuldeep Sengar's bail plea in death case of survivor's father on Monday
On March 13, 2020, Sengar was sentenced to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment by a trial court, which also imposed a Rs. 10 lakh fine on him
The Supreme Court will on Monday take up expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar’s petition seeking bail in the custodial death case of the Unnao rape survivor's father.
Sengar’s bail plea is listed for hearing before a Bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on February 9.
Sengar has challenged the Delhi High Court’s January 19 order refusing to suspend his 10-year jail term in the case on the grounds of delay in trial. The delay was partly caused by multiple applications filed b the accused in the matter, the high court said.
On March 13, 2020, Sengar was sentenced to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment by a trial court, which also imposed a Rs. 10 lakh fine on him. The trial court said "no leniency" could be shown for killing a family's "sole bread earner".
The trial court, which did not hold the accused guilty of murder in the father's case, awarded him the maximum sentence for the offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder after holding that there was no intention to kill.
Sengar's appeals in the main rape case against the December 2019 judgement convicting him and sentencing him to imprisonment for the remainder of his life, as well as the father's case, are pending in the high court.
Sengar's sentence in the rape case was suspended by the high court on December 23, 2025 till the pendency of his appeal challenging his conviction and sentence in the rape case. He has challenged the trial court’s December 2019 verdict in the case. But he continued to remain in jail as he was also serving 10 years' imprisonment in the custodial death case of the victim's father and in which he had not been granted bail.
Noting that substantial questions of law were involved, the Supreme Court had on December 29, 2025 stayed the Delhi High Court’s order for suspension of sentence and grant of bail to the expelled BJP leader in the 2017 Unnao rape case during the pendency of his appeal against conviction.
The rape case and other connected cases were transferred to Delhi from a trial court in Uttar Pradesh on the orders of the Supreme Court on August 1, 2019.
Sengar's appeal against his conviction in the case of the custodial death of the survivor's father is also pending, where he has sought suspension of sentence on the ground that he has already spent a substantial time in jail.
