The court acquitted the Delhi resident saying that a "major lacuna" in the case is manifest from the medical report of the accused that "he is not capable of performing sexual intercourse".
Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat observed that it is a matter of concern that uneducated, uninformed and minor girls from poor and rural backgrounds are being exploited by the "unscrupulous" agents/placement agencies.
"...Thereby grossly misusing and abusing the laws related to rape and sexual abuse have been reaching the courts and are a matter of serious concern," the court said.
"It is high time that the Government wakes up to the reality and puts in place appropriate rules and guidelines so that such unscrupulous and nefarious activities being carried out by the placement agencies are curbed," the judge said.
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The court noted that poor and illiterate girls brought to Delhi from remote areas of West Bengal, Bihar etc. To provide them employment and means of living are either being thrown into "prostitution or used by the owners of these private placement agencies to settle scores with their rivals".
It said that in the night the accused, who was also employed there, came to her room and tried to rape her but he ran away when she started crying.
A woman, who was in the adjoining room, came there and saved her and she narrated the incident to her, it said.