Tis Hazari Court, Delhi, have convicted expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar of culpable homicide not amounting to murder causing the death of Unnao rape victim’s father. District judge Dharmesh Sharma convicted Sengar, along with six others, guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The court observed that Sengar did not intend to kill the victim’s father. However, he was beaten so brutally that he succumbed to death. The rape victim’s father was allegedly framed in an illegal arms case and arrested on April 3, 2018. He died while in judicial custody a few days later, on April 9, 2018. Sengar has already been found guilty in the rape case and has been sentenced until the end of life.
Notably, Sengar has already been found guilty in the rape case and has been sentenced till the end of life. That order of conviction was also passed by District judge Dharmesh Sharma who had clarified that life imprisonment will mean “imprisonment for the remainder of his natural or biological life” in terms of Section 376(2) of IPC.
