Expelled and notorious BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the murder of the father of a woman he raped in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao in 2017.
This was today pronounced in theLucknow high court as Kuldeep Singh Sengar is already serving a life term forthe rape, a sentence handed down in December last year.
In the long-awaited verdict to the rape case — that shocked the nation and included an alleged assassination attempt reportedly orchestrated by Kuldeep Sengar while he was behind bars — the judge praised the rape survivor for "fighting against a powerful person" and slammed the foisting of false cases against her family. The judge also questioned the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) over delays in filing a charge sheet.
Kuldeep Sengar, a four-time BJP MLA from Bangermau in Unnao district, was expelled from the party in August 2019. Apart from the rape case, he is being tried in four other cases — framing of the rape survivor's father in illegal firearms case, his death in judicial custody, a conspiracy of Sengar with others in the accident case and the separate gang rape case of the survivor by three others.