India, Feb. 6 -- Days after the Gautam Budh Nagar district judge rejected a case transfer application in the 2015 Ikhlaq lynching case on January 22, the deceased's wife, Ikraman, on Thursday recorded her statement before an additional district judge after a month-long wait and a series of objections by the defence counsel.

However, the case diary was transferred from the court of additional district judge (fast track court) ADJ (FTC) Saurabh Dwivedi to that of Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADJ ) Chandra Mohan Shrivastava. According to the prosecution, the case diary had remained with Dwivedi's court until Wednesday and was transferred to Shrivastava's court as part of a routine administrative reshuffle of cases.

"On Thursday,...