Overview
- The Delhi High Court bench of Justices Prathiba M. Singh and Madhu Jain listed the survivor’s plea for February 25 in Kuldeep Singh Sengar’s 2020 appeal, which is at the final hearing stage.
- The court directed the survivor to file supporting documents by January 31 and allowed Sengar and the CBI two weeks to submit their responses.
- The application seeks examination of ABS Public School principal Arun Kumar Singh and assistant teacher Virender Singh, along with placing the survivor’s date-of-birth certificate on record.
- The survivor alleges Sengar influenced the investigation, leading the probe to rely on false age documents instead of authentic school records.
- A coordinate bench suspended Sengar’s life sentence on December 23, 2025 after questioning the POCSO Section 5(c) ‘public servant’ basis for aggravated charges, but the Supreme Court stayed that order on December 29.