The issue focused on the law on how authorities should investigate rape charges in the state of Gujarat, India's most populous state. In that case, a 19-year-old student alleged that she had been gang raped by six men after attending a dance party. After her lawyer filed a petition challenging the law, the judge ordered an investigation that found that the six men had not been involved in the attack, though one was an employee of the police department who filed a case for rape for delaying the investigation. That arrest