New Delhi, May 15 -- The Supreme Court on Friday set aside the Delhi High Court order suspending the jail sentence of former Uttar Pradesh BJP legislator Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the 2017 Unnao rape case and granting him bail, while directing the High Court to expeditiously decide his appeal against conviction, preferably within two months.
A Bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi remanded the matter back to the Delhi High Court for reconsideration and clarified that if the appeal is not taken up promptly, the High Court may reconsider Sengar's plea for suspension of sentence afresh before the commencement of the summer vacations.
The top court passed the order on an appeal filed by the Central Bureau of Investigatio...