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HC suspends Sengar's life term in Unnao case
The Morning Standard
|December 24, 2025
THE Delhi High Court on Tuesday suspended the life imprisonment awarded to expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the 2017 Unnao rape case and granted him bail during the pendency of his appeal.
A bench of Justices Subramonium Prasad and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar granted the relief to Sengar while hearing his appeal against the trial court order that sentenced him to life imprisonment. However, the court imposed strict conditions, directing him not to enter within a five-kilometre radius of the victim's residence in Delhi and not to threaten the survivor or her mother.
This story is from the December 24, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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