A youth has been acquitted of the charge of raping a girl on the pretext of marrying her by a Delhi court which also freed three others, including a woman, of cheating her with a promise to provide her a good job in an airlines here.
"I wonder...If it was a case of abduction, confinement, forcible marriage and rape, where was the occasion for the girl, PW-1 (prosecution witness) to file the complaint in CAW (crime against women) cell....
"In view of the aforesaid discussion, I conclude that the prosecution has miserably failed to prove guilt of any of the accused. Therefore, all the accused are hereby acquitted," Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat said.
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Of the four accused, three were allegedly working for a news channel and were also involved in running a placement agency here, the police had said.
It had alleged that the accused had conspired to cheat the 20-year-old girl, who was pursuing her air hostess course from Frankfinn Institute of Air Hostesses here, by inducing her to deliver a sum of Rs 45,000 to them in lieu of a job with some reputed airlines.
"They abducted her in August 2007, confined her in a house for over two months at West Patel Nagar and got her forcibly married to one of the accused, who had thereafter committed sexual intercourse with her against her consent," the police had said.
During the trial, all of them denied the allegations levelled against them. The youth had told the court that he was falsely implicated in the case by the mother of the girl as she was not happy with their marriage.
The judge said, "I wonder that if the accused intended to kidnap and confine the prosecutrix, why would accused... Give his address and phone member to the mother of prosecutrix.
"It is totally unheard of that a kidnapper would provide his/her address and phone number to the kin of the victim to be kidnapped.
