Stolen oxen case drags on for 33 years
For the past 33 years, Surajnath Yadav, a farmer in the Indian state of Bihar, has been going to the local court as an accused in a case involving the theft of a pair of oxen in his village.
Forty-six-year-old Yadav is the only survivor of five villagers accused of stealing a pair of oxen from a house in Nawada Ben village on 19 June 1973.
He was 13 years old then. Today, he is the father of four children.
The maximum punishment for Yadav's crime is three years in prison.
The other accused - Ramdeo Yadav, Suresh Yadav, Sabha Yadav and Gopal Singh- are all dead.
So are the oxen. So is the investigating officer, Yashwant Singh, the complainant, Ramvriskha Yadav and his son, Vishwanath Yadav.
All this in a state which has a new policy of fast trials - last week a district court completed the trial of a rape case in five hours flat, sending the accused to prison for five years.
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