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Kuldeep Singh Sengar, elected to the legislative assembly of the great state of Uttar Pradesh under the colors of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was convicted of having raped in 2017 a 17-year-old girl at her home. Photo dated April 14, 2018. REUTERS / Pawan Kumar / File Photo

In India, a New Delhi court convicted a former Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party for the rape of a teenage girl. This affair with many twists and turns illustrates the scourge of sexual violence and the impunity of the elites in this country of South Asia where a hundred rapes are committed every day. These sexual assaults go unpunished most of the time.

The girl was a minor at the time of the rape. National media began to investigate her case last year when she tried to set herself on fire outside the residence of the head of government of Uttar Pradesh in order to denounce the passivity of the local police.

A few days earlier, his father had died in prison - the family accused the police of having tortured him so that he would force his daughter to withdraw his rape complaint. But she does not allow herself to be intimidated.

This summer, while the 17-year-old continues to fight for justice, she is seriously injured in a road accident that will cost the lives of two of her aunts. A trial is underway to find out if this accident was ordered by Kuldeep Singh Sengar - the same politician who allegedly kidnapped and raped the teenager in 2017.

Kuldeep Singh Sengar, an influential MP until his expulsion from the ruling party, the BJP, last August, faces life in prison. When reading the verdict in New Delhi court, he collapsed in tears. His sentence is to be passed this week.