Delhi High Court seeks CBI response on plea by ex-BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar for interim bail to attend daughter's wedding

The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the interim bail plea of former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who was sentenced to life for raping a minor girl in 2017. .Sengar moved the High Court seeking bail for two months on account of his daughter's wedding scheduled in February. .A Division Bench of Justices Mukta Gupta and Poonam A Bamba directed the CBI to verify the facts stated in Sengar's bail application and file a status report in the matter by January 16, 2023, when the case will be heard next..A Delhi court had in December 2019 sentenced Sengar to imprisonment for the remainder of his life in the 2017 Unnao rape case. The CBI Court also imposed a fine of ₹25 lakh on Sengar. The Unnao rape survivor, a minor, was allegedly kidnapped and raped by Sengar between June 11 to June 20, 2017. She was then sold for ₹60,000, after which she was recovered at the Maakhi police station.The survivor was thereafter continuously threatened and warned by the police officials against speaking out, as instructed by Sengar.An FIR finally came to be recorded against Sengar, and he was finally arrested pursuant to an order passed by the Allahabad High Court..The case took a controversial turn after a lorry without a number plate rammed into the car in which the victim was travelling. The victim and her lawyer were critically injured, while two of her aunts passed away.In August 2019, the Supreme Court transferred the trial in four cases relating to the Unnao rape case to Delhi and ordered that the same be held on a day-to-day basis and completed within 45 days.In December 2021, a Delhi court had discharged Sengar from this case after finding no prima facie evidence that he orchestrated the accident.