Two men, accused of raping a woman after drugging her, have been acquitted by a Delhi court which said she had filed the case to pressurise one of them to marry her.
Additional Sessions Judge Gautam Manan said that in view of the deposition of the 21-year old woman who exonerated the two men, they cannot be held guilty of the offences of rape, abducting with an intent to confine her, causing hurt by means of poison and wrongful confinement.
The court acquitted the two Haryana residents in the case lodged at Dwarka North police station in Southwest Delhi.
"From her testimony, it becomes evident that prosecutrix was not abducted in a car, nor was forced to consume liquor or raped by the accused persons at any point of time. Rather prosecutrix was misguided by her friend to give statements against accused persons in order to pressurise one of them to marry her," the court said.
An FIR was lodged last year on the complaint of the woman who alleged that on December 21, 2016, the two men drugged her after which she became unconscious near a bus stand in Gurgaon and they took her to a flat. There they allegedly forced her to consume liquor and raped her, she had alleged.
In her testimony before the court, the woman said on the day of alleged incident, she had established consensual physical relations and had later given a statement against them to pressurise one of them to marry her.
The court noted that "from testimony of prosecutrix, it is evident that she was neither raped by the accused persons at any point of time and her sexual relations with accused... were consensual. She deposed that on the date of incident, she established consensual relationship with accused... And the other accused did not commit any sexual assault on her.
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