Unnao rape: HC to pass order on plea by Kuldeep Sengar...

Key Highlights

• The trial court had said “no leniency” could be shown for killing a family’s “sole bread earner”.
• It had also awarded a 10-year jail term to Sengar’s brother, Atul Singh Sengar, and five others for their role in the custodial killing of the rape survivor’s father.
• The father of the survivor was arrested at the behest of Sengar under the Arms Act and died in custody on April 9, 2018, owing to police brutalities in custody.
• Sengar had kidnapped the minor and raped her in 2017.
• The trial court, which did not hold the accused guilty of murder under the IPC in the father’s case, awarded the 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 no intention to kill.