Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who was a legislator in Uttar Pradesh, was convicted by the court in Delhi under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act
The woman was on her way to board a train in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh to attend a court hearing over her rape when she was doused with kerosene and set on fire
The woman is battling for her life after a weekend car crash in her northern home state of Uttar Pradesh that police are investigating after her family said they were being targeted.
Opposition groups say Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP is protecting Sengar, a legislator from Uttar Pradesh, whom the woman accused of the rape in 2017.