Plea seeking death – New Delhi: In a relief to Kuldeep Sengar, the Delhi HC has rejected the plea of ​​Unnao rape victim seeking death penalty for the former BJP MLA in the case of her father’s custodial death, saying she failed to show “sufficient cause” to condone the delay of 1,945 days (over five years) in filing the appeal against the sentence awarded by the trial court. A bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja on Monday termed the “unexplained” delay as a matter.

Due to “deliberate inaction and negligence”, her father was arrested under the Arms Act, allegedly on Sengar’s orders, and he died in custody due to police brutality on April 9, 2018. On March 13, 2020, the court convicted Sengar and his brother.