Unnao rape case: Police detain Congress leader, activists protesting near Parliament

Delhi Police connected Saturday (December 27, 2025) detained activistic Yogita Bhayana, Congress person Mumtaz Patel and respective different protesters who were staging a sit-in adjacent the Parliament analyzable to reason the suspension of the beingness condemnation of Unnao rape convict Kuldeep Singh Sengar, an authoritative said.

The protesters reached the country astir 4 p.m. and sat connected the road, raising slogans and demanding the cancellation of the bail granted to Sengar by the Delhi High Court past week, helium said.

The constabulary unit announced done loudspeakers that the country adjacent Parliament was not a designated spot for protests and asked the demonstrators to disperse. When the protesters refused to vacate the spot, they were removed from the tract and detained, the officials added.

The detention came a time aft the Unnao rape survivor's mother, on with activists from the All India Democratic Women's Association and Yogita Bhayana, staged a protestation extracurricular the Delhi High Court. The survivor's parent had said she would attack the Supreme Court against the precocious court's bid and expressed religion successful the apex court.

The Delhi High Court connected Tuesday (December 23) ordered the merchandise of Sengar, an expelled BJP MLA, connected bail pending disposal of his entreaty against his condemnation successful the 2017 rape case. The court, however, imposed strict conditions, including barring him from entering wrong a five-kilometre radius of the victim's residence.

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