The Supreme Court on Monday told the Delhi High Court to decide within three months a petition by expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar seeking the suspension of his 10-year jail term in connection with the custodial death of the complainant’s father in the Unnao rape case, PTI reported.
A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and NV Anjaria directed the High Court to accord an out-of-turn hearing to Sengar’s petition.
It issued the directions while refusing to entertain the former Uttar Pradesh MLA’s application challenging an order of the High Court on January 19 that rejected his petition to suspend the sentence, PTI reported.
In its January 19 order, the High Court noted that Sengar had spent nearly seven and a half years in custody out of the total punishment of 10 years in the custodial death case and that there had been a delay in deciding his appeal against his conviction.
However, it said that the delay was partly because of Sengar, who had filed several applications.
This order came nearly a month after the High Court on December 23suspended Sengar’s life sentence in the main rape case during the pendency of his appeal against his conviction in the matter.
Despite the order, Sengar was to remain in jail...
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