NEW DELHI (INDIA)
The New Indian Express
October 11, 2017
Refusing to rely on the statement of a woman that she was raped and assaulted by a temple priest, a Delhi court has acquitted him observing that things do not appear to have happened the way they were projected.
Additional Sessions Judge Sanjiv Jain said though in rape cases conviction can be made on the sole testimony of the victim, in this case the woman’s statement was “exaggerated” and led to doubts on the veracity of her evidence. Therefore, it is not safe to rely on her “uncorroborated version”.
The court relied on the priest’s version that he was assaulted by the woman on an assumption that he had a role in breaking the engagement of her son.
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