For almost a week now, the Tis Hazari district court in New Delhi has been hearing arguments in the Unnao rape case on a day-to-day basis. Such is the importance, and urgency, of completing the trial within 45 days that Judge Dharmesh Sharma even held a hearing last Saturday—second Saturday of the month when courts across the country remain shut.
Today, the court clubbed two out of four cases in the Unnao rape incident, that is, the case of false implication of the victim’s father under Arms Act, and the case of the father’s death on April 9, 2018, while he was in judicial custody.
