Delhi High Court Seeks Kuldeep Sengar’s Response on Survivor’s Plea for Death Penalty in Custodial Death Case

The Delhi High Court has sought the response of expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Sengar and other convicts on a plea filed by the Unnao rape survivor seeking enhancement of their 10-year sentence to death in her father’s custodial death case.

A Bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja issued notice on the survivor’s application seeking condonation of a delay of over 1,940 days in filing the appeal against the 2020 trial court verdict.

The Court observed that the maintainability of the appeal must be decided first. 

The Supreme Court of India has directed the High Court to decide both Sengar’s appeal and the survivor’s enhancement plea within three months.