Unnao rape case: Delhi High Court suspends jail term of Kuldeep Sengar, grants bail

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File photograph  of expelled BJP person  Kuldeep Singh Sengar

File photograph of expelled BJP person Kuldeep Singh Sengar | Photo Credit: The Hindu

The Delhi High Court connected Tuesday (December 23, 2025) suspended the jailhouse word of expelled BJP person Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who is serving beingness imprisonment successful the Unnao rape case.

A Bench of Justices Subramonium Prasad and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar released Mr. Sengar connected bail portion directing him to furnish a idiosyncratic enslaved of ₹15 lakh with 3 sureties of the similar amount.

The High Court besides directed Mr. Sengar not to travel wrong a 5 km radius of the victim's location and not endanger her oregon her mother.

"Violation of immoderate of the conditions would pb to cancellation of bail," the Court said.

Mr. Sengar's condemnation has been suspended by the High Court till the pendency of his entreaty challenging his condemnation and condemnation successful the rape case. He has challenged the December 2019 proceedings tribunal verdict successful the rape case.

The insignificant miss was kidnapped and raped by Mr. Sengar successful 2017.

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.

Mr. Sengar's entreaty against his condemnation successful the lawsuit of the survivor's father's custodial decease lawsuit is besides pending, wherever helium has sought suspension of condemnation connected the crushed that helium has already spent a important clip successful jail. He was sentenced to 10 years successful jailhouse successful the custodial decease case.

Published - December 23, 2025 04:13 p.m. IST

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