Overview
- The appeal is listed for December 29 before a three-judge vacation bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant with Justices JK Maheshwari and Augustine George Masih.
- The CBI’s Special Leave Petition contests the Delhi High Court’s December 23 order that suspended Sengar’s life sentence and granted conditional bail during his pending appeal.
- The agency cites precedent treating MPs and MLAs as public servants for aggravated offences under POCSO and says suspension of life terms should be exceptional in heinous crimes.
- Sengar remains in custody because he is serving a separate 10-year sentence in the custodial death case of the survivor’s father, for which he has not received bail.
- The survivor has filed a complaint alleging collusion by the investigating officer and has voiced safety fears as protests in Delhi, including at Jantar Mantar, call for stronger protection.