Additional Sessions Judge Nivedita Anil Sharma made the observation while acquitting a Haryana native of the offence of raping the woman after she retracted from her complaint and said she was now happily married to the accused.
"Today there is public outrage and a hue and cry is being raised everywhere that courts are not convicting rape accused. However, no man, accused of rape, can be convicted if the witnesses do not support the prosecution case or give quality evidence, as in the present case where the prosecutrix is hostile," the judge said.
The court, while absolving the accused of the charge, took into consideration the girl's statement before it that she lodged a false complaint against him due to wrong advise and influence of some well wishers.
She claimed that she knew the accused since a long time as he was from her village.
However, during the trial, she turned hostile and in her cross examination she said she did not have any physical relations with him and they were now married.