The prime minister also said he issued instructions to the general prosecutor to create a committee for speeding up prosecutions and overseeing the judicial system.
While the decision speeds the case against Fastow's wife, it does nothing to speed the prosecution of the politically connected Lay or his underboss Skilling and might even slow it.
Later that month, an independent review recommended that the BHA find ways to speed up the prosecution of cases.
Mr. Maseko also said the government would set up special courts to speed up the prosecution of those who had attacked people in the mayhem that seized impoverished townships.
Angry citizens believe that politicians, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, are being disingenuous when they promise to toughen laws and speed up the prosecution of rapists and perpetrators of crime against women.
To speed up the prosecution procedure, a system of local justice called gacaca courts was brought in.
"The speed that investigations and prosecutions move, sometimes they can from the outside seem slow," he said.
His defence counsel questioned the accuracy of the in-car police speed camera so the prosecution hired an expert who rented an airfield and an Audi R8 to carry out tests, the results of which were presented to the court.
While legal reforms must be upheld, especially to speed up and assure prosecution of offenders, even more urgent is to change the attitude of Indian men towards women.
And he will get a chance to explain why he ignored the advice of his aides and sped up the prosecution of John Hogan and James Kenna, the two troopers who shot and wounded three unarmed black and Hispanic men during a 1998 traffic stop on the New Jersey Turnpike, only to have it all blow up in his face.
Keir Starmer QC, the director of public prosecutions, said the speed with which rioters and looters were brought before the courts was far more powerful in preventing reoffending than the severity of sentences.
