SENGAR GETS 10-YEAR JAIL FOR MURDER
NEW DELHI: Disqualified UP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar was on Friday handed down 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment, besides imposition of a fine of ~10 lakh, by a Delhi court for the death of Unnao rape victim’s father in custody, saying “no leniency” can be shown for killing a family’s “sole bread earner”.
Sengar, who has been sentenced to the “remainder of his natural biological life” for raping the Unnao woman, who was a minor then, was stripped of his membership on February 25 as a lawmaker of the Assembly following his conviction in the rape case. District judge Dharmesh Sharma also awarded 10 years’ jail term to Sengar’s brother Atul and five others for their role in the custodial killing.
The court, which did not hold the accused guilty of murder under the IPC, awarded maximum sentence for the offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder under section 304 of the IPC after holding that there was not intention to kill.
Sengar and his brother will have to pay ~10 lakh each as fine within three months to legal heirs of the deceased, including the survivor, as compensation.
“Considering the minor children (of the deceased) losing their father who was sole bread winner and keeping in mind that the family has been uprooted, all the convicts in the case are being sentenced to maximum punishment,” the court said in its order.
“The way crime has been committed, the victim’s father was beaten up and paraded, no leniency can be given to the convicts and therefore, I am sentencing all the convicts to the maximum punishment,” the judge said.
The court directed the Uttar Pradesh government to take disciplinary action for medical negligence against doctors who had treated the man when he was injured and in judicial custody.
The victim’s father was arrested at the behest of Sengar in the Arms Act and had died in custody on April 9, 2018, owing to police brutalities in custody. On March 4, Sengar, his brother and five others were convicted for the death of the victim’s father in judicial custody.
Besides ten years in prison for culpable homicide, Sengar, his brother, then in-charge of Makhi Police Station in Unnao Ashok Singh Bhadauria and then subinspector K P Singh, Vineet Mishra, Birendra Singh and Shashi Pratap Singh have been also sentenced for other offences as well.
On December 20 last year, Sengar was sentenced to jail for “remainder of his natural biological life” in the rape case.