India, Aug. 10 -- Three observations on the Bombay high court judgment which on Thursday overturned the earlier acquittal of editor Tarun Tejpal on rape charges.

The first: justice for rape survivors should not take over a decade. It's been 13 years since a young woman journalist accused Tejpal, her then editor, of rape and sexual assault in a hotel elevator during a conference organised by Tehelka in Goa in 2013.

Given that this was amongst the first high-profile rape trials after amendments to the criminal law following the 2012 gang-rape and brutalization of a medical student, this should have been a test case. Instead, it took six years for the trial to even begin. Tejpal has now said he will appeal against his conviction and 10-yea...