Court awards life imprisonment to Kuldeep Singh Sengar in Unnao rape case
PTI, Dec 20, 2019, 2:46 PM IST
New Delhi: A Delhi court awarded life imprisonment, till the remainder of life, to expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar on Friday for raping a woman in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, in 2017.
District Judge Dharmesh Sharma, who had reserved the verdict on quantum of sentence in the forenoon, also imposed a fine of Rs 25 lakh in the case.
The court had on Monday convicted Sengar for rape under the Indian Penal Code and the POCSO Act for the offence by a public servant committing penetrative sexual assault against a child after holding the victim to be a minor.
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