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The Delhi High Court Monday refused to widen the impermanent suspension of erstwhile MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar’s beingness word for the 2017 rape of a insignificant successful Unnao, telling him to surrender.
The expelled BJP leader, besides serving a 10-year condemnation implicit the custodial decease of the rape survivor’s father, has been retired connected interim bail since December 5, was seeking its hold connected wellness grounds.
Sengar’s counsel, Senior Advocate N Hariharan, told a part seat of Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur that Sengar has a January 24 assignment for a cataract country astatine AIIMS Delhi. Citing AIIMS’ engaged schedule, the counsel submitted that Sengar has been successful custody for 8 years.
The survivor’s lawyer, Mehmood Pracha, made a preliminary objection, saying helium has not been provided a transcript of the main exertion by Sengar wherever helium seeks an hold of the interim suspension.
Directing Sengar’s broadside to proviso the aforesaid to the subsister connected Monday itself, the tribunal posted the substance for January 22.
Sengar had moved a akin exertion earlier a single-judge seat of Justice Vikas Mahajan, seeking interim bail successful the custodial decease lawsuit registered by the CBI. He was recovered blameworthy of culpable homicide not amounting to execution successful this lawsuit connected March 13, 2020.
Justice Mahajan, too, did not see the interim suspension of the condemnation successful airy of the presumption taken by the part bench.
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