Unnao Rape Case: Uproar in Delhi over the bail of Kuldeep Sengar, Congress leaders Mumtaz and Yogita Bhayana in custody.

New Delhi. Congress leader Mumtaz Patel, activist Yogita Bhayana and several other protesters, who were sitting on a dharna near the Parliament complex in protest against the suspension of the life sentence of Unnao rape case convict Kuldeep Sengar, were detained by the Delhi Police on Saturday. A police officer gave this information.

The protestors reached the Parliament complex around 4 pm and sat on the road and started raising slogans against Sengar and demanded cancellation of the bail granted to him by the Delhi High Court last week, the official said. According to the official, the policemen announced through loudspeakers that the area near Parliament was not a designated place for protests and asked the protesters to move away from there.

The officer said that when the protesters refused to vacate the place, they were removed from the place and taken into custody. Earlier, the Unnao rape victim’s mother had on Friday protested against Sengar’s bail and sentence suspension along with All India Democratic Mahila Sangh activists and Yogita Bhayana outside the Delhi High Court.

The victim’s mother had said that she would approach the apex court against the High Court order, where she was confident of getting justice. The Delhi High Court on Tuesday ordered the release of Sengar, a former expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA, on bail pending the disposal of his appeal against his conviction in the 2017 Unnao rape case.

However, the High Court had imposed a condition that Sengar would not go within five kilometers of the victim’s house nor threaten her or her mother during the bail period. The court had made it clear that any violation of the conditions would automatically lead to cancellation of Sengar’s bail. Despite bail in the rape case, Sengar will remain in jail as he is also serving a 10-year sentence in the custodial death of the victim’s father, in which he has not been granted bail.