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The CBI volition instantly situation the suspension of beingness condemnation and bail to former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar successful the Unnao rape lawsuit successful the Supreme Court, officials said connected Wednesday (December 24, 2025).
Also read: The Hindu’s editorial connected Sengar’s conviction
The determination was taken aft studying the orders of a Division Bench of the Delhi High Court successful the Unnao rape lawsuit of 2017, a CBI spokesperson said successful a statement.
It was decided to record an SLP earlier the Supreme Court astatine the earliest against the orders of the High Court, which granted bail to Sengar aft suspending his beingness sentence, the CBI spokesperson said.
Sengar, however, volition stay successful jailhouse arsenic helium is besides serving a 10-year word for the custodial death of the rape survivor's father.
Sengar had filed an entreaty against his beingness sentence, which was vehemently opposed by the CBI and the household of the unfortunate earlier the High Court.
“The CBI filed timely replies and written arguments successful this matter. The household of the unfortunate has besides opposed the petition, citing information and threats. The CBI volition instantly situation this order,” the connection said.
On Tuesday (December 23, 2025), the Delhi High Court suspended the jailhouse word of expelled BJP person Sengar, who was serving beingness imprisonment successful the 2017 Unnao rape case, saying helium has already served 7 years and 5 months successful prison.
The rape subsister and her parent sat successful protestation against the order, but were forcefully taken distant by the Delhi Police.
The contented soon snowballed into a monolithic governmental slugfest with Leader of Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi questioning the determination of the police to usage unit against the mother-daughter.
“Is specified attraction of a gang-rape subsister appropriate? Is it her 'fault' that she gathered courageousness to rise her dependable for justice? “The information that her perpetrator (former Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Sengar) 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,” the erstwhile Congress main said successful a station successful Hindi connected X.
“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,” helium added.
Mr. Gandhi besides said that successful a democracy, raising a dependable of dissent is simply a close and suppressing it is simply a crime.
Sengar’s condemnation has been suspended by the High Court till the pendency of his entreaty challenging his condemnation and sentencing successful the rape case.
He challenged a December 2019 proceedings tribunal verdict successful the case.
Imposing respective conditions for bail, the seat of Delhi High Court comprising Justices Subramonium Prasad and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar directed Sengar to furnish a idiosyncratic enslaved of ₹15 lakh with 3 sureties of the similar amount.
It besides directed Sengar not to travel wrong a 5-km radius of the victim’s residence successful Delhi, and not to contented threats to her oregon her mother.
Meanwhile, Mr. Gandhi besides met the rape subsister astatine his parent Sonia Gandhi’s 10, Janpath residence connected Wednesday (December 24, 2025).
Accompanied by her mother, the rape subsister met some Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, and urged them to assistance her get a apical lawyer to combat the lawsuit against Sengar successful the Supreme Court, which Rahul Gandhi promised to do.
Mr. Gandhi said the rape subsister should beryllium treated with respect and that justness should beryllium ensured to her, alternatively of subjecting her to “injustice” and “fear”.
Sengar was convicted of kidnapping and raping the miss successful 2017, erstwhile she was a minor.
The rape lawsuit and different connected cases were transferred to Delhi from a proceedings tribunal successful Uttar Pradesh connected the directions of the Supreme Court connected August 1, 2019.
