Rahul Gandhi meets Unnao rape survivor, says 'we're turning into dead society'

Congress person Rahul Gandhi met the Unnao rape subsister successful New Delhi connected Wednesday (December 24, 2025) aft she allegedly faced ill-treatment and said India is not conscionable becoming a dormant system but besides a dormant society.

Rahul Gandhi met the rape subsister astatine his parent Sonia Gandhi's 10, Janpath residence aft the pistillate staged a protested successful Delhi against the bail granted by the precocious tribunal to the accused successful the case, expelled BJP person Kuldeep Singh Sengar.

The Leader of Opposition successful the Lok Sabha separately said the rape subsister should beryllium treated with respect and that justness should beryllium ensured to her, alternatively of giving her injustice and fear.

"Is specified attraction of a pack rape subsister appropriate? Is it her 'fault' that she has the courageousness to rise her dependable for justice? "The information that her perpetrator (former BJP 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," Mr. Gandhi 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 said successful a democracy, raising a dependable of dissent is simply a close and suppressing it is simply a crime. "The subsister deserves respect, information and justness -- not helplessness, fearfulness and injustice," helium asserted.

The 2017 Unnao rape subsister connected Wednesday (December 24) termed the Delhi High Court's determination to suspend the jailhouse word of Sengar "kaal (death)" for her household and said she would determination the Supreme Court against the order.

The rape subsister and her parent staged a protestation adjacent Mandi House present against the tribunal verdict granting bail to Sengar.

In its order, the precocious tribunal directed that Sengar shall not travel wrong a five-kilometre radius of the victim's residence and endanger the subsister oregon her mother. It besides said a usurpation of the conditions would automatically pb to the cancellation of his bail.

Sengar, however, volition stay successful jailhouse arsenic helium is besides serving a 10-year word successful transportation with the custodial decease of the rape survivor's begetter and has not been granted bail successful that case.

The subsister was a insignificant erstwhile she was kidnapped and raped by Sengar successful 2017.