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Congress women's helping main Alka Lamba connected Monday (December 29, 2025) welcomed the Supreme Court's determination to enactment a Delhi High Court bid that had suspended the beingness condemnation of expelled BJP person Kuldeep Singh Sengar successful the 2017 Unnao rape case.
Speaking to presspersons, Ms. Lamba described the enactment arsenic a triumph for the rape subsister and her supporters, asserting that the ineligible conflict would continue.
"It is simply a large happening that the Supreme Court has overturned the precocious court's determination and made it wide that Kuldeep Singh Sengar volition not beryllium allowed to travel out, helium volition enactment successful jail. This is simply a triumph for the survivor, her household and each who supported them," the president of All India Mahila Congress said.
Ms. Lamba criticised the Prime Minister's ‘Beti Bachao’ slogan, alleging that medication was "saving" offenders. "This is not the end; we volition proceed to fight,” she added.
The Supreme Court's involution comes aft the Delhi High Court had suspended Sengar's beingness word connected the grounds that helium had already served 7 years and 5 months successful prison.
Sengar's condemnation was suspended by the precocious tribunal 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.
Despite the precocious court's earlier bid successful the rape case, Sengar remains successful jailhouse arsenic helium is besides serving a 10-year condemnation successful the custodial decease of the survivor's father.
The Unnao rape proceedings and related matters were moved from Uttar Pradesh to a Delhi tribunal connected August 1, 2019 pursuing a Supreme Court directive.
