India, Jan. 19 -- The Delhi high court on Monday dismissed expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar's plea seeking suspension of sentence in a case related to the custodial death of the Unnao rape victim's father.

The father was thrashed by Sengar's aide in 2018, when the former had gone with his co-workers in Unnao to attend a hearing in the rape case. He was later arrested for allegedly possessing illegal arms and succumbed to multiple injuries suffered in police custody.

A bench of Justice Ravinder Dudeja observed that although Sengar had already undergone 7.5 years of imprisonment and his appeal against the March 2020 trial court order convicting him and sentencing him to 10 years could not be taken up for a...