Unnao Custodial Death: Delhi HC Seeks Kuldeep Sengar's Stand on Survivor's Plea for Death Sentence

• Delhi High Court sought responses from Kuldeep Sengar and others on the Unnao rape survivor's plea to enhance their 10-year prison term to a death sentence in her father's custodial death case.
• The survivor seeks to modify the trial court's decision, arguing Sengar and co-convicts should be held guilty of murder (Section 302 IPC) instead of culpable homicide.
• The High Court issued notice on the survivor's plea, which also seeks condonation of a 1940-day delay in filing the appeal against the 2020 trial court order.
• The Supreme Court had previously directed the High Court to decide Sengar's appeal against conviction and the survivor's appeal for sentence enhancement within three months.
• Sengar was previously convicted for raping the minor survivor in 2017 and sentenced to life imprisonment; he and his brother received 10 years for the father's custodial death.