AIRWO strongly condemns the suspension of Kuldeep Singh Sengar’s sentence
Calls for a united struggle for justice for the Unnao victim and against the gross mistreatment of the victim by the fascist, anti-women Modi government
The All India Revolutionary Women’s Organisation (AIRWO) has strongly condemned the Delhi High Court’s suspension of the life sentence of BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the horrific rape and murder case. It has also strongly condemned the gross mistreatment of the Unnao victim and the activists of the people’s movement protesting with her in Delhi by the police of the fascist, Manuvadi, anti-women Modi government.
Sengar was not only convicted of raping a minor victim in Makhi village of Unnao district, UP on June 4, 2017, but also convicted in another case for causing the death of her father in police custody. The rape occurred when the girl went to Sengar’s house for a job that he was allegedly offering.
It is noteworthy that after the rape, the minor victim could not even report the case to the police because Kuldeep Sengar and his goons threatened her and her family. Her father was openly attacked and beaten, and then instead of the perpetrators, he was sent to jail on false charges of protection. The beating was so severe that the victim’s father died in police custody without treatment at the behest of Sengar, his brother, and their associates. When she reported the case, the police were unwilling to register an FIR because Kuldeep Singh Sengar was an MLA and had a lot of influence and power in the area. The victim had to threaten self-immolation at Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s residence before an FIR was registered. Even while Sengar was in jail, Sengar and his associates continued to threaten the victim and her family. They had to apply for protection, and the court granted them CRPF protection, which transferred the case to the CBI and shifted the trial from UP to Delhi. During all this, Sengar and his associates threatened the victim and her family with death if they did not withdraw the case. Sengar had access to all facilities in jail, including a cell phone. Subsequently, an attempt was made on the lives of the victim and her lawyer when she was going to visit an uncle in jail with her aunts. A truck collided with the car they were traveling in, killing one of her aunts, while the victim and her lawyer were seriously injured. The CRPF security detail that was supposed to be with the victim was not present. The Delhi trial court sentenced Kuldeep Singh Sengar to life imprisonment. The trial court also noted the CBI’s failure to conduct a proper investigation. Sengar was also convicted in the murder case of the victim’s father. The High Court directed Sengar not to come within a 5 km radius of the victim’s residence. The appellant was instructed to remain in Delhi while the appeal was pending. AIRWO states that this incident is a continuation of a series of events that have unfolded during the undeclared Hindu Rashtra rule of the RSS, the world’s largest and oldest fascist organization, for over the past 11 years. These events include the release and public honoring of the murderers and rapists in the Bilkis Bano case in Gujarat, the release and public honoring of members of the saffron gang who sexually harassed female students at Banaras Hindu University, and the release on bail of notorious rapists and criminals like Ram Rahim and Asaram Bapu. This is a very dangerous precedent, demonstrating the plight of women under the cruel Manusmriti-based Hindu Rashtra project that the fascist Sangh Parivar is violently pursuing across the country. According to the Manusmriti, the sacred constitution of the Sangh’s Hindu Rashtra, women are mere objects of pleasure and cannot be granted the status of human beings. The Unnao victim has not received justice to this day, and saffron gang members like Kuldeep Sengar, who are perpetrators of violence against women and murderers, are released from prison according to the Manusmriti, while the victims of rape and sexual assault suffer further torment. To date, not a single leader or spokesperson of the Sangh-BJP has uttered a word against the above incident.
AIRWO General Secretary M. Selvi has called upon all progressive women’s organizations to unite and protest against this wrongful suspension of Kuldeep Sengar’s sentence, to ensure proper justice for the victim, and to oppose the fascist, Manuvadi, Brahminical Modi government.
M. Selvi
General Secretary
All India Revolutionary Women’s Organization (AIRWO)
December 28, 2025
