Unnao rape case: Ishita, in a post on X, said she is writing the letter “as a daughter who is exhausted, frightened, and slowly losing faith”. Ishita Sengar, daughter of Unnao rape case-accused former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member Kuldeep Singh Sengar, wrote an open letter seeking “justice” for her father whose trial she said has made her and the entire family receive “relentless” threats.
Ishita, in a long post on social media platform X, said she is writing the letter “as a daughter who is exhausted, frightened, and slowly losing faith, but still holding on to hope because there is nowhere else left to go.” She said people call them “powerful,” and asked “what kind of power leaves a family voiceless for eight years.”
The open letter came as the country cheered Supreme Court’s stay on the Delhi high court order that granted bail to Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the 2017 Unnao rape case. The Delhi high court on December 23 suspended the life sentence awarded to expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the 2017 Unnao rape case till the pendency of his appeal challenging his conviction and sentence in the case, noting that he has already served seven years and five months in prison.
Pronouncing the judgment, a division bench of justices Subramonium Prasad and Harish Vaidynathan Shankar directed Sengar to furnish a personal bond of ₹15 lakh with three sureties of the like amount. Sengar had challenged the December 2019 verdict of a trial court that sentenced him to life imprisonment in the rape case.
Ishita Sengar’s open letter
In her open letter, Ishita Sengar wrote her identity is reduced to “the daughter of a BJP MLA” and that she has been told “countless times on social media that I should be raped, killed, or punished simply for existing.” She alleged the Sengar family has been “stripped of dignity piece by piece”, “abused, mocked, and dehumanised every single day for eight years”.
