New Delhi: Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar on Thursday sought before the Delhi High Court an extension of his interim bail for five months on medical grounds.
A bench comprising Justice Prathiba M Singh and Amit Sharma, hearing Sengar’s plea, which had earlier granted Sengar interim bail till December 20 in the case of raping a minor in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh in 2017, asked for a report from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) medical board to be supplied to Sengar’s counsel and posted the matter for December 20.
Sengar is serving imprisonment for the remainder of his biological life in minor’s rape case
Sengar, who is serving imprisonment for the remainder of his biological life in minor’s rape case, had earlier moved the High Court seeking suspension of his sentence on medical grounds, submitting that he was suffering from various ailments.
High Court earlier granted Sengar interim bail on medical grounds till December 20
The division bench of the High Court granted Sengar interim bail till December 20 and directed that he be admitted to AIIMS, Delhi for his medical evaluation. It also sought a report from the medical board of AIIMS.
What did the High Court say on Thursday?
The bench on Thursday observed that aside from a previous medical report, AIIMS in a communication raised objections over the number of visitors visiting Sengar and said that large number of persons visited Sengar which compromised medical care and impacted daily routine in AIIMS.
“AIIMS has never sent a communication before,” the bench said, news agency PTI reported.
The counsel representing Sengar, however, told the bench that only Sengar’s family members had visited him during the medical evaluation.
Sengar was also sentenced 10-year jail term in death minor victim’s father in custody
Sengar was also sentenced 10 years of rigorous imprisonment in the case of the death of the father of the Unnao rape victim in custody. The father of the rape victim was arrested at the behest of Sengar in a case under Arms Act and he died on April 9, 2018, while being in custody. The trial court had also awarded a 10-year jail term to Sengar’s brother Atul Singh Sengar and five others.
A single bench of the High Court on December 10 granted 10-day interim bail on medical grounds to Sengar, who sought suspension of his 10-imprisonment awarded to him for the custodial death of the father of the Unnao rape victim.
