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Rape accused acquitted, police pulled up

New Delhi: A city court has acquitted a 35-year-old man charged with raping a girl on the ground that the police failed to produce the victim and her parents to testify before it.

Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Raj Paul Singh Teji observed “since the main material witnesses were untraceable, no fruitful result would be served by examining the remaining witnesses” who were merely formal in nature.

He said “as there is no incriminating evidence on record against the accused (Bal Bahadur), I am left with no option except to acquit him of the offences” absolving him of all the charges levelled against him by the prosecution.

As per the prosecution, on March 17, 2006, finding the 21-year-old-girl alone in her house in Karol Bagh area in Central Delhi, Bal Bahadur had sexually assaulted her and then “criminally intimidated” by threatening to kill her if she disclosed the incident to anybody.

The court pulled up the Mukherjee Nagar SHO for not taking proper steps to ensure the presence of the victim and her parents to testify in the court.

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