Unnao Rape: Supreme Court Directs Transfer Of All 5 Cases To Delhi Court
The Supreme Court directed the transfer of all five cases registered in connection with the Unnao rape incident from a court in Uttar Pradesh to a court in the national capital.
The apex court also directed the Uttar Pradesh government to provide Rs 25 lakh to the rape survivor as an interim compensation.
Besides, it directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to complete within seven days the investigation of the fifth case relating to last Sunday's accident in which the woman and her lawyer were critically injured, and two of her aunts killed.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi made it clear that the agency can only seek extension of additional seven days time for probe in the accident case and that too in exceptional circumstances.
The bench, also comprising Justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose, directed that the trial in the main case relating to the rape of the survivor will have to be completed within 45 days from its commencement.
The top court said that the name of the presiding judge for the trial of the cases will be decided after an in-chamber consultation.
The apex court said it was passing an ex-parte order without the representation of the accused persons to ensure expeditious investigation and trial in the cases keeping in view the peculiar facts and circumstances of the case.
The bench said it will not entertain any plea seeking to vacate or alter the order passed today.
The apex court directed that the survivor, her mother and other members of the family will be provided security by the Central Reserve Police Force and an officer of the level of commandant will file a compliance report forthwith.
The court also took note of the oral instructions received by the CBI from the doctors of the King George Medical College Hospital that both the survivor and her lawyer are in a condition to be airlifted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
It will however pass the order in this regard after receiving instruction from their family members.
The court will hear the case again on Friday during which it will also hear a plea moved on behalf of Mahesh Singh, the survivor's uncle who has been lodged in a jail in Rae Bareilly, to be shifted to a jail in the capital.
Singh's wife was also in the ill fated car and had died in the accident.
He participated in her cremation on Wednesday after the Allahabad High Court granted him parole for a day.
CBI, which has taken over the investigation into Sunday's road accident, booked 10 people for murder, including BJP legislator Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who is already in jail, charged with the rape of the Unnao woman when she was a minor in 2017.
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