He argued that provisions in CrPC (Code of Criminal Procedure) have an elaborate process to ensure an independent and objective view in order to decide whether the accused should be put through further ignominy. Desai said the investigating officer and the public prosecutor should have to be divorced from each other in order to take away the inherent bias and to ensure the state government or IO do not go after the accused because of extraneous factors.

"To say that it is such a horrible judgment, and I want to file an appeal even without waiting for the full judgment is casting aspersion on the fairness of the judiciary," Desai said.

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