Kuldeep Sengar, a former lawmaker from India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has been sentenced to life in jail after being convicted of raping a 17-year-old girl in 2017.
A trial court also ordered Sengar to pay 2.5m rupees as compensation.
The incident occurred in June 2017 when the woman allegedly approached Sengar for a job, before she was kidnapped and raped for more than a week by him and others.
On 13 April, the high court in Uttar Pradesh ordered the arrest of Sengar, after the woman attempted to set herself on fire outside the home of the state’s chief minister just five days earlier, alleging that she had been repeatedly thwarted in her pursuit of justice.
Following the arrest, the woman was seriously injured in a suspicious car crash in July.
The aftermath of the crash saw both her aunts, who had been travelling with her, die as well as her lawyer sustaining serious injuries.
The court in the capital Delhi found Sengar guilty earlier this week, with the former BJP member now set to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
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