Unnao rape victim’s father’s death: Give me justice or hang me, Kuldeep Sengar tells court

Addressing District Judge Dharmesh Sharma, Sengar said, “Please give me justice. Otherwise, hang me, burn my eyes with acid if I did something wrong.”

The judge told Sengar, “It is not so simple. There are so many phone calls… After 6 pm the fight had taken place…the father was being beaten…What did you do? Was there no interference on your part?”

The CBI told the court that Sengar and the six others convicted in the case should be awarded the maximum punishment of life imprisonment. The court will announce the order on the quantum of sentence on Friday. Among those convicted are Sengar, his brother, two policemen and three others.

The CBI prosecutor told the judge that the two convicted policemen deserve a harsh sentence.

While convicting the accused, the court said the sequence of events “establishes clearly, beyond reasonable doubt, that under the patronage of accused Kuldeep Singh Sengar, his foot soldiers — namely Vineet Mishra, Birender Singh and Shashi Pratap Singh (and probably with others who could not be identified) — assaulted the victim with leg and fist blows by intermittently hitting him… with the barrel of the rifle.”

The court, however, acquitted the other accused — constable Amir Khan, Shailendra Singh, Ram Sharan Singh and Sharadveer Singh — giving them the benefit of doubt.