A Delhi court has acquitted a security guard of a group housing society at Sector-11 in West Delhi’s Dwarka in a case of allegedly sexually assaulting two cousins in 2013.
The two girls, aged eleven and nine years respectively, had come here from Haryana and Gujarat to spend their summer vacations with their maternal aunt.
According to the complaint lodged by their aunt, the guard molested them in the lift and at other places in the society’s premises.
Though the girls supported the prosecution case reiterating their statements recorded by a Metropolitan Magistrate, the court dismissed their evidence saying they had contradicted each other.
Their aunt also supported the case but the court found her evidence at variance with that of the victims.
In his defence, the guard produced the president of the residential society who testified that the guard had complained against the victims’ aunt on several occasions. She had allegedly objected to the guard asking her guests to make entries in the logbook before going inside the society. The society president also deposed that the guard had complained to him regarding the victim’s aunt threatening him.
On the basis of evidence by the society’s president, the counsel for the guard said his client had been implicated by the victims’ aunt to take revenge.
“From the defence evidence lead on record by the accused and having regard to the evidence which has been lead on record by the victims and their mausi , which is full of contradictions, the possibility of accused having been falsely implicated just to take revenge by their mausi also cannot be ruled out in this case, the benefit of which has to be given to the accused,” Additional Sessions Judge Vikas Dhull said acquitting the accused.
According to the complaint, the guard had molested two girls in the lift and at other places in the society’s premises
