Ambarasan Ethirajan

This was one of the high-profile rape cases in India at that time, between 2017 and 2019, when the details started emerging.

So this former legislator, an MLA from Uttar Pradesh state, from the governing BJP party, and he was convicted of raping a 17-year-old girl.

And later on, her family also went through very difficult times.

Her father was beaten by a group of men after she filed this complaint.

And then he died in custody while he was being held by police on a trumped-up charge.

And later on, she also met with a road accident in which two of her aunts got killed.

So this triggered outrage across the country how someone influential can behave this way.

And Kuldeep Singh Sengar, the former MLA, he was given a life term for this.

And also, he was given a tenure for culpable homicide and the subsequent case.

So when the Delhi High Court last week gave him bail and suspended his life sentence, that triggered outrage across the country.

How?

This was one of those cases which clearly saw what went wrong to this woman, how she and her family suffered.

And the court went through all the details and gave this verdict.

So that triggered the protest which you heard a short while ago.

The high court judgment was about a technical detail about whether it is an aggravated assault.

And if someone like a public servant commits aggravated assault, then it qualifies for a stricter punishment.

Now, whether he can be called a public servant or not at that time, that was the technical detail.

The governing BJP in 2019 expelled him before the original verdict came.

It also shows how people can manipulate the judicial process or the system and also how people in power can wield their influence.

And that is why this triggered such an outrage in India, like people have been protesting and in social media everywhere people have been raising questions.