A Delhi court has acquitted a 19-year-old youth in a case of allegedly molesting a 12-year-old girl in Narela in north Delhi in 2016 as the victim and her parents evidenced in the trial that they had lodged the case due to some misunderstanding.
According to the prosecution, the accused had molested the victim as her parents were taking her to a hospital for treatment.
Youth thrashed
He had caught hold of her hand and said he loved her. However, he was immediately nabbed by the victim’s parents and beaten up by them and passers-by.
The victim’s family and the accused lived on rent on the same premises.
However, when the victim was called in the witness box to depose she said her father had lodged the case due to some misunderstanding.
The victim further deposed that the police did not make any inquiry or query her regarding the case.
She had also recorded her statement before a Metropolitan Magistrate reiterating the allegations earlier shared with the police. Yet, she gave a clean chit to the accused.
‘Accused innocent’
Her parents also evidenced on the same line.
In the cross-examination, the three witnesses stood the ground and said that the accused was innocent.
“The victim herself as well as her parents, who were the only material witnesses, on the testimonies of which the case of the prosecution was hinging, did not support the prosecution case. Prosecutrix and her parents were the only eyewitnesses of the incident and they not having supported the prosecution case and having given a clean chit to the accused, there is nothing that survives in the prosecution case which falls flat on its face, failing to bring home the guilt of accused,” Additional Sessions Judge Seema Maini in the Rohini courts said in her judgment.
Allegations not proved
“From the aforesaid discussions, allegations against accused are not proved. Accordingly, accused Dilkhus stands acquitted for the offences he has been charged with,” the judge said while acquitting the accused.
