Metropolitan Magistrate Shivani Chauhan acquitted Jamia Nagar residents Nehmat, Noor, Alam, Naushad and Ahmad of the offences of voluntarily causing hurt (section 323), outraging the modesty of a woman (section 354) and using gestures to insult a woman (section 509) under the IPC.
"The deposition of witnesses is full of contradictions. The witnesses have contradicted each other repeatedly, thus, their veracity is punctured and cannot be relied upon to establish culpability upon the accused persons," the MM said, while adding that the allegations against the five men could not be proved by the prosecution beyond reasonable doubt.
When he was asked to leave, he began passing lewd comments and also called his four accomplices to the venue, it said.
They all misbehaved with the women at the wedding and also vandalised the venue and beat up relatives of the complainant. The woman somehow informed the police and the five men were arrested, the prosecution said.
While acquitting the five men, the court said it could not be proved that they were clicking photographs of the women.
The court also pointed out that it was a large gathering at the wedding function yet not a single public witness was been examined.
The five men had claimed that they were falsely implicated in the case.
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