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The CBI connected Friday (December 26, 2025) approached the Supreme Court with a peculiar permission petition (SLP) against the Delhi High Court’s bid to suspend the beingness condemnation of erstwhile BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar successful the 2017 Unnao rape case
This came a time aft an entreaty had been filed successful the Supreme Court connected Thursday (December 25) challenging the suspension of situation condemnation of the expelled BJP leader.
The determination to record the SLP was taken aft studying the orders of a part seat of the Delhi High Court successful the Unnao rape lawsuit of 2017. It was decided to record an SLP earlier the Supreme Court astatine the earliest against the orders of the precocious court, which granted bail to Sengar aft suspending his beingness sentence, a CBI spokesperson said successful a statement.
Protests against the Delhi HC’s bid continued connected Friday (December 26) with respective women sitting extracurricular the High Court holding placards that sought justness for the survivor.
Sengar’s condemnation was enactment connected clasp by the High Court connected Tuesday (December 23) till the pendency of his entreaty challenging his condemnation and condemnation successful the rape case. He has challenged a December 2019 proceedings tribunal verdict successful the case.
He would nevertheless stay successful jailhouse since helium was besides serving 10 years’ imprisonment successful the custodial decease lawsuit of the victim’s father.
He has not been granted bail successful that case. The erstwhile BJP person had nevertheless separately appealed against his condemnation successful this lawsuit besides connected the crushed that helium had already spent a important clip successful jail.
Imposing respective conditions for bail, the HC Bench 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.
Sengar was recovered blameworthy of kidnapping and raping the subsister 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.
With PTI inputs
