Youths facing gangrape charges let off

Six youths, accused of gangraping a teenaged girl, have been let off by a Delhi court on the victim’s deposition that she had been forced to implicate them.

Six youths, accused of gangraping a teenaged girl, have been let off by a Delhi court on the victim’s deposition that she had been forced to implicate them.

Additional sessions judge R Kiran Nath let off the boys, all south Delhi residents, noting that the victim “has turned totally hostile to the case of prosecution”.

The case was registered on a complaint lodged by girl’s father, who had alleged his daughter, aged about 15-16 years, had gone missing since April 22, 2011 and that he suspected someone might have lured her and taken her away.

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In her statement, she stated that on April 22, she said the accused had taken her to a room in Sangam Vihar, where all of them took turns to rape her.

However, in her deposition to the court she made a turnaround.

She further deposed that her father was also called to the police station and she was forcibly asked to make a wrong complaint against the accused persons.