NEW DELHI: A man accused of criminally assaulting his landlord’s daughter last year has been acquitted by a court here.
Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Kumar acquitted Som Chander Pal saying the testimony of the girl was contradictory and created enough doubts.
Contradictory statement
While in her deposition during the trial the girl had alleged that she was criminally assaulted, in her statement before the Metropolitan Magistrate she had not made any such allegations, the court said.
The court also said the girl had eloped with the accused on her own will with the intention to marry him.
It also rapped the prosecution for failing to substantiate whether the girl was minor.
Som Pal, a resident of Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh, had eloped with the girl from Ambedkar Nagar in South Delhi on February 15, 2006. He was arrested later at a house in Gurgaon where he was staying along with the girl. On the basis of his complaint from the girl’s father, he was booked for rape.
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