Man acquitted of rape charge

A Delhi court has acquitted a man of the charge of raping a placement agency worker as neither the victim’s nor the medical evidence was found supportive.

The victim worked at Isha Placement Agency as a cook. She stayed at Narela and used to commute to her workplace in bus. The accused, Santosh Kumar Nayak, had befriended her at a bus stand.

A few days after the friendship, the accused had taken her to Agra where he took her to a guest house, booked a room, declaring her as his wife in the logbook.

When she objected to it, the accused threatened her, took her into the room, and raped her, the victim said in her complaint lodged at the Sun Light Colony police station in South Delhi in 2012.

But in the trial, she said that the accused had established the physical relations with her consent.

The doctor who had prepared the medico-legal case of the victim said that no sign of any internal or external injury on the body of the prosecutrix was noticed, the court said.

As to the threat to the victim by the accused, the court added: “Nothing has come on record that he had threatened her when he established physical relations with the prosecutrix in the hotel at Agra or thereafter, as nothing of this sort came in the testimony of the prosecutrix.”