10-Year Jail For Expelled BJP Leader Kuldeep Sengar For Murder Of Unnao Rape Survivor's Father

On Thursday, convicted rapist and expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar had created some drama inside a Delhi court after he broke down, saying if he had done anything wrong, he should be hanged and acid poured in his eyes.

This was during the hearing on the quantum of sentence in the case related to the murder of Unnao rape survivors's father. Senger was earlier convicted for culpable homicide not amounting to murder in the death of the Unnao rape victim's father.

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Sengar, who argued for himself claimed before District Judge Dharmesh Sharma that he has no involvement in the murder of the victim's father who died in judicial custody on April 9, 2018. "Give justice to me or else hang me, put acid in my eyes if I have done something wrong," he told the judge.

But the meltdown failed to impress the judge who on Friday sentenced him to ten years in jail. The MLA and his brother Atul Singh Sengar have also been asked to pay Rs 10 lakh each as compensation to the victim's family. Five others, including two police personnel, have also been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in the case.

On Thursday, the judge told Sengar that he has already been held guilty and he cannot deny his involvement as the records clearly suggested that he was on the call with the police officials when the victim's father was being beaten up in custody.

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Sengar said he has two daughters and requested the judge that he be let-off. "You have a family. Everyone has. You should have thought all this while committing the crime but you went on to break all the laws?" the judge had asked.

According to the CBI, on April 3, 2018, there was an altercation between the rape victim's father and one Shashi Pratap Singh. The charge sheet filed on July 13, 2018, said the victim's father and his co-worker were returning to their village, Makhi when they asked Shashi for a lift.

Shashi denied them the lift, triggering an altercation among them, the CBI had alleged adding that Shashi called his associates, following which Kuldeep's brother Atul Singh Sengar reached the spot along with others and beat up the woman's father and his co-worker. The woman's father was subsequently taken to the police station by them where an FIR was lodged against him and he was arrested.

The charge sheet said that all this while, Kuldeep Sengar was in touch with the district police superintendent and Makhi police station in-charge Ashok Singh Bhadauria. Later, he also spoke to the doctor who examined the rape victim's father. Before he died, the father who was admitted to a hospital after his health deteriorated had given a statement saying Atul had tortured him in jail.

In December, the four-term MLA was sentenced to jail for the "remainder of his natural biological life" for raping the woman in 2017 when she was a minor.

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He also faces another case, related to an alleged assassination attempt on the victim, in July 2019 after a truck rammed into the car she was travelling in with some family members and her lawyer leaving two of her aunts dead.