A Delhi court has acquitted a man in a rape case as the victim, her mother and husband refused to support the prosecution’s case in the trial.
The victim said in her evidence that the police had planted the case on the accused. A quarrel had taken place between her husband and the accused over the latter parking his car before her house but the police made it a rape case against the accused, the victim further said in her evidence.
Pressure from cops
“I gave the statement before Judge Sahab after being pressured by the police, who said my husband and I would be implicated in some false case if I did not give the police’s version of the statement,” the victim deposed.
“She has deposed that the statement bears her signature but she has volunteered that she does not know the contents of the statement, as police official obtained her signatures on blank papers. She had not stated to the police in her statement that accused... entered her house and committed rape upon her on the point of knife and threatened her that, if she disclosed the incident to anyone, he would kill her and her children,” the court said.
The victim’s mother and husband corroborated her evidence. “Since the prosecutrix and other material witnesses have not supported the prosecution case ... I am of the view that the prosecution has miserably failed to prove its case against the accused beyond reasonable doubt and the accused is acquitted of the offence he was charged with,” the judge said.
