{"id":320704,"date":"2020-03-04T08:10:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T08:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320704"},"modified":"2020-03-04T08:10:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T08:10:35","slug":"former-bjp-mla-kuldeep-singh-sengar-convicted-for-death-of-unnao-rape-victims-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-bjp-mla-kuldeep-singh-sengar-convicted-for-death-of-unnao-rape-victims-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar convicted for death of Unnao rape victim\u2019s father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314379 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Kuldeep-sengar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/Kuldeep-sengar.jpg 510w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/Kuldeep-sengar-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/Kuldeep-sengar-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/Kuldeep-sengar-218x150.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/>A Delhi court on Wednesday convicted former BJP legislator Kuldeep Singh Sengar in a case pertaining to custodial death of the father of Unnao rape victim who he raped three years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Out of 11 accused, Kuldeep Sengar and six others have been convicted and four others have been acquitted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Unnao rape survivor\u2019s father died in custody in April 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The woman was allegedly abducted and raped by Sengar in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In December last year, the court had sent Sengar to jail for \u201cremainder of his natural biological life\u201d for raping the girl.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The rape complaint, however, was registered only after woman tried to immolate herself outside Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath\u2019s official residence in Lucknow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sengar, a four-time BJP MLA, was expelled from the party in August 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Delhi court on Wednesday convicted former BJP legislator Kuldeep Singh Sengar in a case pertaining to custodial death of the father of Unnao rape victim who he raped three years ago. Out of 11 accused, Kuldeep Sengar and six others have been convicted and four others have been acquitted. Unnao rape survivor\u2019s father died [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[3394,11676],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320705,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320704\/revisions\/320705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}