Unnao Rape Survivor Appeals to Supreme Court docket to Reinstate Sengar’s Jail Sentence

The 2017 Unnao rape case survivor on Wednesday (December 24, 2025) termed the suspension of jail time period of expelled BJP chief Kuldeep Singh Sengar as “kaal (loss of life)” for her household and mentioned that she would transfer the Supreme Court docket in opposition to it.

Additionally learn: The Hindu’s editorial on Sengar’s conviction

The Delhi Excessive Court docket on Tuesday (December 23, 2025) suspended the sentence of Sengar, who’s serving life imprisonment within the case, and ordered his launch on bail pending the disposal of his enchantment in opposition to his conviction by a trial courtroom in December 2019.

In its order, the Excessive Court docket directed that Sengar shall not come inside a 5-km radius of the sufferer’s residence and shall not threaten the survivor or her mom. It additionally mentioned violation of the circumstances would robotically result in cancellation of bail.

Sengar, nonetheless, will stay in jail since he’s additionally serving 10 years’ imprisonment within the custodial loss of life case of the sufferer’s father and has not been granted bail in that case.

Reacting to the decision, the survivor, who was a minor when she was kidnapped and raped by Sengar in 2017, instructed PTI over telephone from Delhi that safety for her relations, legal professionals and witnesses had already been withdrawn and the courtroom’s choice had deepened her fears.

“If the convict will get bail in instances like this, how will the nation’s daughters stay protected? For us, this choice is at least ‘kaal’ (loss of life),” she mentioned.

“These with cash win, these with out cash lose,” she rued.

The survivor, who was heading out together with her mom to stage a protest close to Mandi Home in opposition to the decision, added that she would problem the Excessive Court docket order within the Supreme Court docket.

The Unnao rape case and different related instances have been transferred from Uttar Pradesh to Delhi on the instructions of the Supreme Court docket in August 2019.