Unnao Rape case: SC asks Delhi HC to decide on temporary court at AIIMS Hospital

The Supreme Court today asked the Delhi High Court to expeditiously decide on the request of a Special Judge for setting up a temporary court at the AIIMS Hospital to record the statements of the Unnao rape survivor.

The Special Judge Dharmesh Sharma, who is holding the trial in the cases related to the Unnao incident, had recently written a letter to the Delhi High Court seeking permission to hold in-camera proceedings at AIIMS for the recording of the statement of the woman after doctors said it was not advisable to bring her to the court premises.

He has informed the Registrar General of the high court



that the CBI, the woman and her family have no objection to such deposition.

A bench of Justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose also directed the CBI to complete within two weeks its probe and file the charge sheet in the road accident case, in which the rape survivor was injured.

In July this year, a truck rammed into the car she was travelling in with some family members and her lawyer. Two of her aunts died in the road accident. She was airlifted from a hospital in Lucknow and brought to the AIIMS for better care as she continued to be critical.