New Delhi: Former BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar was found guilty of raping a woman when she was a minor in 2017 in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao.
A Delhi court today pronounced the ex-BJP legislator guilty of kidnapping and raping the minor in Unnao in 2017.
District and Sessions Judge Dharmesh Sharma, who reserved the judgment last week, had been hearing the case on a day-to-day basis since August 5 after it was transferred from a court in Lucknow on the Supreme Court’s directions.
The court was given 45 days time to complete the trial.
District Judge Dharmesh Sharma convicted Sengar for rape under IPC and POCSO Act for the offence of public servant committing penetrative sexual assault against a child, according to the reports.
The offences entail a maximum punishment of life imprisonment.
The court had framed charges against Sengar under IPC sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 363 (kidnapping), 366 (kidnapping or inducing a woman to compel for marriage), 376 (rape) and other relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
Now aged 19, the woman was allegedly kidnapped and raped by Sengar in 2017.
He was arrested in April last year, days after the girl threatened to set herself ablaze in front of UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s home in Lucknow if the police didn’t file her complaint.
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