Delhi Court Orders Perjury Complaint Against Woman For Filing False Rape Case To Extort Money
A Delhi Court docket yesterday ordered submitting of a criticism towards a girl for submitting a false rape case towards a person, whom she met on a matrimonial web site, with the intention to extort cash from him.
Whereas acquitting the accused within the case, ASJ Anuj Agrawal of Tis Hazari Courts mentioned that an acquittal simplicitor wouldn’t subserve the curiosity of justice because the legislation should not solely punish the responsible, however it should additionally shield the dignity of an harmless.
“Although within the immediate case, the gravel has fallen in favour of accused however the echo of accusation lingers for society remembers the cost and never the decision as in our social milieu, a false accusation (of rape/sexual assault) leaves an indelible impression upon the social psyche which no judicial imprimatur can take away,” the choose mentioned.
The Court docket noticed that false rape accusations not solely put pointless load on the overflowing dockets but additionally causes grave injustice to precise rape victims because it impinges upon treasured judicial time and scarce State’s useful resource.
Noting that the prosecutrix lied underneath Oath thereby destroying the belief on which Justice stands, the Court docket ordered submitting of criticism towards her for the offences of perjury.
The prosecutrix had alleged that accused began chatting along with her via profile on matrimonial web site and when he met her for the primary time in his automobile, he sexually molested her and ready her nude images. It was her case that on her protest, the accused promised to marry her and in addition promised to delete her images in subsequent assembly. As per the FIR, the accused dedicated vaginal and anal intercourse along with her in one other assembly.
Acquitting the accused, the choose noticed that the testimony of prosecutrix herein was not of sterling high quality and that she made a false assertion earlier than the court docket after concocting a mendacious story of rape or molestation.
“In my opinion, the mentioned circumstances, if seen cumulatively, unerringly result in just one irresistible conclusion that it was a case whereby sufferer entrapped accused in a pre-planned method on the pretext of matrimonial alliance in order to extort cash from him,” the Court docket mentioned.
The choose mentioned that he was at pains to look at that the arrest of accused within the case was carried out in a tearing hurry by Investigating Company with none justifiable causes and that too even previous to registration of FIR, which was evident from the testimony of an SI and IO.
The Court docket noticed that although feeble makes an attempt have been made to justify the style of arrest of accused by terming it as mere ‘detention’ however his private liberty was curtailed the second he was detained from his home by police officers.
Additional, the choose famous that the SI was in fixed contact with prosecutrix a lot previous to registration of FIR and had telephonic dialog along with her on 16-17 events.
It noticed that the rivalry of defence that involved police officers being the SI, IO and the then SHO have been in ‘cahoot” with prosecutrix in order that they may extort cash from accused, couldn’t be brushed apart evenly.
“Nonetheless, any motion on this rely is left to the Administrative discretion of worthy Commissioner of Delhi Police who might, in his knowledge, look into the matter and take applicable remedial motion in order that the cherished motto of Delhi Police Pressure “shanti, sewa, nyay” doesn’t get belied.
