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Expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar will remain in jail for life for raping a woman in Unnao in 2017, a Delhi court said on Friday while sentencing him to life imprisonment. District Judge Dharmesh Sharma also imposed an exemplary fine of Rs 25 lakh in the case and has to be paid within a month. "This court does not find any mitigating circumstance. Sengar was public servant and betrayed people's faith," the judge said while declining the plea for lenient approach in sentencing him. The court also said the conduct of Sengar was to intimidate the rape survivor.It also directed that the rape survivor be paid an additional Rs 10 lakh as compensation to the mother of the victim. Read More

In an apparent attack at the BJP, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday asked why people like BJP MLA and rape accused Kuldeep Singh Sengar are given the "protection of political power", while their victims are abandoned to battle for their lives alone. Priyanka Gandhi's poser in a tweet came a day after the Uttar Pradesh police filed a murder case against Sengar and nine others following a complaint by the Unnao rape survivor 's family, alleging "conspiracy" behind the Sunday's car crash in which the victim was severely injured and two of her family members were killed. The Congress leader also tagged portions of the FIR filed along with the tweet. "Why do we give people like Kuldeep Sengar the strength and protection of political power and abandon their victims to battle for their lives alone?" Priyanka Gandhi tweeted. "This FIR clearly states that the family was threatened and apprehensive. It even men...