A Sufi teacher, accused of raping a divorced woman on the pretext of resolving her troubles, has been let off by a Delhi court saying the woman had lodged the complaint in a fit of anger.
‘No more financial help’
The court observed that the woman, who had entered into her second wedlock with the accused, a 'khwaja' (teacher or a preacher) at the Hazrat Nizamuddin shrine here, had filed the complaint in anger as he had stopped maintaining her financially.
“Testimony of the woman shows that when the accused stopped coming to her, bearing her expenses and told her that he does not consider their marriage as valid, she contacted his son but he refused to intervene in their matter. This enraged her. She then took legal advice and made the complaint,” Additional Sessions Judge Sanjiv Jain said.
In her complaint, the 39-year-old said she had gone to the shrine in 2012 to pray as she was upset after losing her job. There she met the Khwaja, who asked her to visit his office daily where he would pray for her. The complaint says she visited him regularly for several months, where he intoxicated her and raped her. Later he married her by taking advantage of her semi-conscious condition, the complaint alleged.
