A youth, accused of raping his 15-year-old cousin after kidnapping her last year, has been acquitted by a
Delhi court which said the girl was a ‘consenting party’ and it appears that she had done everything with her ‘sweet will’.
Additional sessions judge Illa Rawat acquitted the Delhi resident of the charges of kidnapping and raping his cousin saying the police had ‘miserably failed’ to prove the allegations against him.
‘The element of taking away or enticement is found to be lacking,’ the judge said.
‘It appears that prosecutrix (girl) was willing and consenting party and it seems that everything has happened with her sweet will. In these circumstances, the factum of kidnapping of prosecutrix does not stand proved,’ the court said.
The court also noted that the minor did not support the police’s case and deposed that she had voluntarily accompanied the accused and he had not raped her.
According to police, the accused had kidnapped the girl on 23 July last year and had taken her to
Gurgaon where he kept her till 14 October last year
and raped her.