New Delhi: The Supreme Court is likely to hear on Monday expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar’s plea seeking bail in the custodial death case of the Unnao rape survivor’s father, reports said.
The plea follows the Delhi High Court’s January 19 rejection of his request to suspend a 10-year rigorous imprisonment sentence, imposed by a trial court on March 13, 2020. The lower court fined Sengar ₹10 lakh, ruling out leniency for slaying the family’s “sole breadwinner” via culpable homicide not amounting to murder, citing no direct intent to kill.
Sengar’s appeals in the main rape case against the December 2019 judgment convicting him and sentencing him to imprisonment for the remainder of his life, as well as the father’s case, are pending in the High Court.
His sentence was suspended by the high court on December 23, 2025, till the pendency of his appeal challenging his conviction and sentence in the rape case. The Supreme Court stayed the suspension on December 29, 2025.
