Overview
- Kuldeep Sengar’s brother Jaideep was told to surrender by Saturday before the court considers his request to extend interim bail on health grounds.
- Judges noted his interim suspension of sentence, first granted in July 2024 and last extended into 2025, was never renewed despite multiple listings.
- Jaideep claims stage IV oral cancer and sought more time out of prison, while the CBI told the court the prescription he filed was fabricated.
- The High Court issued notices to Kuldeep Sengar and other convicts on the survivor’s appeal to convert the 2020 Section 304 verdict to murder under Section 302 with a death sentence, with maintainability to be decided first and a hearing set for March 2.
- The Supreme Court on February 9 asked the High Court to hear related appeals out of turn within three months; Kuldeep is already serving life for the 2017 rape, and he and others received 10-year terms for the father’s 2018 custodial death.