New Delhi, July 6 -- Former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar's counsel argued that he was not present at the place of the incident, as the Delhi High Court heard the arguments on the final appeal filed against his conviction in the Unnao rape case.

The High Court will continue to hear arguments on Tuesday.

Division bench of Justices Prathiba M Singh and Vikas Mahajan heard the arguments advanced by senior counsel N Hariharan along with advocate SPM Tripathi and Siddharth Yadav.

It was argued by the senior counsel that it is a case where the judgement was delivered in 19 days; he said that 'justice hurried is justice buried'.

He also said that Sengar was convicted of an offence for which he was not charged. He was charged for the offence u...