A city court has acquitted a youth accused of abducting and raping a girl after allegedly giving her sedatives, on the ground that everything between them was consensual. Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat let off a Delhi resident of the charges, saying the court has not found an “iota of reliable evidence” against the accused regarding the offence. The court said that the prosecution has also failed to prove the charges against him.
“Overall conduct of the prosecutrix (the alleged victim), as discussed herein above, demonstrates that she was in love with accused (boy), who was in regular contact with the victim through mobile phone, had accompanied him voluntarily and the sexual intercourse between the two was with her consent,” the court noted. According to the prosecution, the girl had lodged a case against the accused alleging that he had raped her on December 20, 2012 after abducting and administering sedatives to her at a house at Agra.
“It has come in the evidence of the victim that when they reached Delhi from Agra on December 22, 2012, the boy stood in front of her house. This can be done only by a true lover and not by a kidnapper or a rapist. Even at that time, the victim or her family members did not call the police to handover the accused. It indicates that they knew that the accused had not committed any crime,” the judge noted, while declaring him free. It also observed that the girl, while staying at a house in Agra never tried to escape or tell anybody about her being kidnapped, when the boy was away.