New Delhi, January 22
The Delhi High Court has granted interim bail to BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar on medical grounds in the 2017 Unnao rape case. A bench of Justices Naveen Chawla and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar said that Sengar, who is serving a life sentence in the case, will be released on January 23 to undergo a cataract operation. The bench directed him to surrender before January 27 after being discharged from the hospital.
It also made it clear that if the surgery did not take place on January 24, Sengar should surrender that evening.
The court said that they suspend the sentence of the appellant. He should surrender to the Jail Superintendent by 12 noon on January 27 after being discharged from the hospital. Sengar was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by Delhi’s Tis Hazari Court on 20 December 2019. He has also lost his membership of the Legislative Assembly. Even before this, Sengar has been granted interim bail by the court several times. Due to this case, people’s anger is still intact.