Sengar gets 10-yr jail for death of rape victim’s dad

■Unnao girl’s father had died in police custody April 9, 2018

Expelled BJP

MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, his brother Jaideep alias

Atul Singh and five others were on Friday sentenced to 10 years in prison 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 and his brother will also have to pay `10 lakh each as fine within three months to legal heirs of the deceased, including the rape victim, as compensation.

The court also directed the Uttar Pradesh government to take appropriate disciplinary proceedings for medical negligence against doctors who had treated the father when he was injured and in judicial custody.

The father of the rape victim was arrested at the behest of Sengar in the Arms Act and had died in custody on April 9, 2018 owing police brutalities in custody.

Expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, his brother Jaideep alias Atul Singh and five others have been sentenced to 10 years in prison 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 and his brother will also have to pay `10 lakh each as fine within three months to legal heirs of the deceased, including the rape victim, as compensation.

The court also directed the Uttar Pradesh government to take appropriate disciplinary proceedings for medical negligence against doctors who had treated the father when he was injured and in judicial custody. The father of the rape victim 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.

Pronouncing the judgement in a packed courtroom, district judge Dharmesh Sharma said : “The victim lost her father. She can’t return to her home. There are four kids in the family... three of them are girls...all four are minors.”

The judge said : “There can be no denying that rule of law was broken. Sengar was a public functionary and had to maintain the rule of law. The way the crime has been committed, it does not call for leniency.” The court handed down the same sentence for two policemen charged with criminal conspiracy for falsely implicating the father in an Arms Act case; the cops were out on bail.

Last week, Sengar and six others had been convicted of culpable homicide (not amounting to murder) and criminal conspiracy. The judge had said the father had been brutally beaten, but there was no intention of murder. Sengar, who has already been sentenced to spend “remainder of his natural biological life” in jail for raping the minor Unnao girl, was stripped of his membership on February 25 as the lawmaker of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly following his conviction in the rape case.

On the death of the father of the Unnao rape victim, the court did not hold the accused guilty of murder under the IPC. It, however, awarded maximum sentence for the offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder to convicts under section 304 of the IPC after holding that there was not intention to kill.

On the compensation part, the court said : “Considering the minor children (of the deceased) losing their father who was sole bread winner of the family and keeping in mind the fact that the victim’s family has been uprooted from their native place, all the convicts in the case are being sentenced to maximum punishment.”

◗ Sengar, who has already been sentenced to spend ‘remainder of his natural biological life’ in jail for raping the minor Unnao girl, was stripped of his membership on February 25 as the lawmaker of the UP Assembly