A city court has acquitted a man of the charge of attempting to kill a woman, saying he was implicated at the instance of his ex-girlfriend to settle scores with him. While deciding the case, the court said there was no apparent reason or motive for the accused to assault the victim, who was the friend of his estranged lover, and the possibility of framing him in the criminal case could not be ruled out.
"Female of the species are more dangerous, which seems to be correct. A woman scorned is capable of doing anything as in the process, the social norms, customs and for that matter even the law cannot be an obstacle or a deterrent. The instant case seems to be one such example," Additional Sessions Judge Vimal Kumar Yadav said.
The court acquitted East of Kailash resident Jitender for allegedly assaulting the woman on the night of April 12, last year after entering her house and, thereafter, fleeing the spot by locking her inside.
The woman's brother had lodged the complaint at Amar Colony police station against Jitender.
The court said the woman's testimony and the surrounding circumstances were not appealing to logic and reason and the testimony of other witnesses were contrary to normal human conduct and behaviour which could not be relied upon to hold the accused guilty.
Holding that the whole episode was "shrouded under mysterious circumstances", it said. "Apparently, things have got intertwined in a complex jumble which makes the picture quite hazy and in turn case doubtful."
The court said that the story on behalf of the accused seemed probable that "he has been falsely implicated in order to settle scores at the instance of his ex-girl friend with whom he was having a kind of affair, which had reached the stage of getting married also..."
It asked as to why the victim was not taken to hospital by her brother on the night of the incident or the next day and instead her friend had called the police control room and had taken her to the hospital.
"Thus, the possibility of framing the man in the criminal case due to the injury sustained by the victim accidentally or self-inflicted, cannot be ruled out," it said.