A Delhi court on Wednesday convicted expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar and 6 other guilty for the custodial death of the Unnao rape survivor’s father.
The woman’s father died on April 9, 2018, in judicial custody.
District judge Dharmesh Sharma said Sengar had no intention of killing the victim’s father.
“He was beaten in a brutal manner that led to his death,” the judge said.
The Central Bureau of Investigation had examined 55 witnesses in support of the case and the defence examined nine witnesses. The court had recorded the statements of the rape survivor’s uncle, mother, sister and one of her father’s colleague who claimed to be an eyewitness to the incident.
The court had on December 20 last year sent Sengar to jail for “remainder of his natural biological life” for raping the woman in 2017 when she was a minor.
