Appeal to national leaders to stop former BJP MLA Sengar’s bail: Unnao rape survivor

The 2017 Unnao rape subsister connected Wednesday (December 24, 2025) urged nationalist leaders to intervene to revoke the conditional bail granted to erstwhile BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who is serving a beingness word successful the case.

Her entreaty came a time aft the Delhi High Court suspended Sengar’s condemnation and allowed him bail. The subsister met Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi astatine their residence connected Wednesday (December 24).

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“I privation to petition each the leaders to halt his bail. If successful 5 years, helium tin beryllium fixed bail, what anticipation bash women successful the state have,” she told presspersons aft the meeting.

The subsister said she had requested meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah arsenic well.

On Tuesday (December 23) evening, the subsister and her household members were forcibly removed by information unit portion protesting against the tribunal bid adjacent India Gate. In a video that has since gone viral connected societal media, the subsister is seen being dragged and lifted by astatine slightest 4 women Delhi constabulary officers. As she screamed to beryllium released and allowed to talk to the press, the officers shoved her wrong a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) conveyance and drove her distant from the site.

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Her parent said they were stopped again portion they were connected their mode to conscionable their lawyer connected Wednesday (December 24, 2025). She alleged that CRPF unit took them connected a vehicle. While she was asked to get disconnected midway, she suspected that the information unit would instrumentality her girl to Ghitorni. “My girl was taken successful a conveyance against her wishes due to the fact that they did not privation america to conscionable our lawyer, but she (rape survivor) aboriginal heard that immoderate elder serviceman instructed them to fto her conscionable her ineligible counsel,” the parent told The Hindu.

She said the conditional bail granted to Sengar showed however “justice for the mediocre successful India continues to beryllium a distant dream”. “If Sengar steps retired of the jail, helium volition termination each of us, my hubby is already dead,” she added.

The subsister aboriginal met with her lawyer successful the day earlier gathering the Gandhis. According to sources, the subsister and her household requested that Mr. Gandhi assistance them find a elder lawyer to correspond them successful the Supreme Court. They besides requested to beryllium relocated to a Congress-ruled State for amended safety.

The survivor’s hubby besides requested Mr. Gandhi to assistance him find amended employment. The root told The Hindu that some Mr. Gandhi and his parent person agreed to assistance the subsister and her household with their needs to combat the ineligible conflict and survive.

Taking to societal media level X, Mr. Gandhi expressed daze implicit the attraction of the rape survivor. Pointing to the video of the subsister being manhandled by the Delhi Police, helium asked if specified attraction was appropriate.

“Is her ‘fault’ that she has the courageousness to rise her dependable for justice? The information that the perpetrator (former BJP MLA) has been granted bail is highly disappointing and shameful — particularly erstwhile the subsister is being repeatedly harassed, and is surviving nether the shadiness of fear. Bail for rapists, and treating survivors similar criminals — what benignant of justness is this? We are not conscionable becoming a dormant system — with specified inhuman incidents, we are besides turning into a dormant society. In a democracy, raising a dependable of dissent is simply a right, and suppressing it is simply a crime. The subsister deserves respect, information and justness — not helplessness, fearfulness and injustice,” Mr. Gandhi said.