Overview
- Demonstrators, including the survivor’s family and women’s rights activists, gathered outside the Delhi High Court to oppose the conditional bail, as police warned protests there are prohibited.
- The Delhi High Court on December 23 suspended Kuldeep Singh Sengar’s life sentence in the 2017 rape case, granting bail with a Rs 15 lakh bond, a 5 km no‑go zone around the survivor’s home, and no contact with her or her mother.
- Despite the suspension of his life term, Sengar remains in custody because he is serving a separate 10‑year sentence for the custodial death of the survivor’s father.
- A petition filed by advocates Anjale Patel and Pooja Shilpkar seeks a Supreme Court stay of the High Court order, arguing the relief ignored the trial court’s findings and the gravity of the offenses.
- The CBI said it will move the Supreme Court against the suspension of sentence and bail, as political voices such as AAP questioned the agency’s speed in challenging the order.