Unnao Rape Case 2017: Delhi Court Convicts Ex-BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar ILW News Updates Mon, Dec 16, 2019, at ,11:34 AM District Judge Dharmesh Sharma of a Delhi Court has convicted expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar for kidnapping and rape of a woman in Unnao in 2017. However, the Court has acquitted co-accused Shashi Singh of all charges. Sengar, a four-time BJP MLA from UP's Bangermau, was expelled from the party in August 2019. Arguments on the quantum of Sengar’s sentence will be held on Wednesday. The charges were framed under Sections 120 b (criminal conspiracy), 363 (kidnapping), 366 (kidnapping or inducing a woman to compel for marriage), 376 (rape) and other relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. District Judge Dharmesh Sharma had reserved his judgment on December 10 after hearing the arguments of the Central Bureau of Investigation and the MLA’s lawyer. The proceedings were held in camera. The judge heard the case on a daily basis from August 5 after it was transferred from a court in Lucknow to Delhi on the Supreme Court’s directions. Background: The case took the first hype after the death of the victim’s father in judicial custody. The woman's father was allegedly framed in an illegal arms case and arrested on 3 April 2018. He died while in judicial custody a few days later, on 9 April. On 28 July 2019 in a road accident of victim, her two aunts and her lawyer by a truck. In the accident, the victim and her lawyer were severely injured after the car in which they were traveling was hit by a truck. Two of her aunts were killed in the accident and her family had alleged foul play. The apex court, taking cognizance of the rape survivor's letter written to then Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, had on August 1 transferred all five cases registered in connection with the Unnao rape incident from a Lucknow court in Uttar Pradesh to the court in Delhi with directions to hold trial on a daily basis and completing it within 45 days.