
Indian court hands life term to ex-BJP lawmaker Kuldeep Singh Sengar for rape
Friday, December 20, 2019, 8:07 PM
A court sentenced a former lawmaker from India's ruling party to life imprisonment for raping a teenager, his lawyer said on Friday, the highest ranking Indian politician to get such a significant jail term in recent years. Kuldeep Singh Sengar, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator in Uttar Pradesh, was convicted earlier this week under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.
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