'Treated like criminal': Rahul on 'manhandling' of Unnao rape victim; slams bail to Sengar

NEW DELHI: Leader of absorption Rahul Gandhi connected Tuesday criticised the "manhandling" of the Unnao rape subsister from India Gate, wherever she was protesting against the Delhi precocious court’s determination to suspend the beingness condemnation of the convict and erstwhile BJP person Kuldeep Singh Sengar."Is specified attraction of a pack rape subsister appropriate? Is her "fault" that she has the courageousness to rise her dependable for justice?" Gandhi wrote connected X.He described the precocious court’s bid granting bail to Sengar arsenic ‘disappointing’ and ‘shameful’. Sengar committed the transgression successful June 2017 and was convicted successful December 2019, months aft the Supreme Court shifted the proceedings from Uttar Pradesh to Delhi.“Bail for rapists and treating survivors similar criminals—what benignant of justness is this?" the Congress person asked.

Gandhi added that India is not lone a "dead economy" but is besides becoming a "dead society.” This was a notation to his earlier remark endorsing US President Donald Trump’s jibe astatine India and Russia."In a democracy, raising a dependable of dissent is simply a right, and suppressing it is simply a crime. The subsister deserves respect, safety, and justice—not helplessness, fear, and injustice," the Raebareli MP said.The precocious tribunal connected Tuesday granted conditional bail to Sengar and suspended his beingness condemnation successful the Unnao rape lawsuit for the duration of the pendency of his entreaty challenging his condemnation and sentencing.