The Supreme Court today directed the transfer of all five cases registered in connection with the Unnao rape incident from a court in Uttar Pradesh to a competent court in the national capital. The apex court also directed the Uttar Pradesh government to provide 25 lakh rupees to the rape survivor as an interim compensation.
Besides, it directed the CBI to complete within seven days the investigation of the fifth case relating to the last Sunday’s accident in which the rape survivor and her lawyer were critically injured and two of her aunts got 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.