New Delhi: The fourth accused, who was a minor at the time of incident, was tried separately by the Juvenile Justice Board and also acquitted as the victim had turned hostile. While acquitting the trio, the court said there was hardly any material on record which may connect any of the accused with any of the offence and with the prosecution's case.
"Only the victim and Ravi were in real position to prove the case of prosecution but they have diluted the incident to a huge extent and moreover, according to them, the accused, being tried at the moment, were not those persons either," the court said.
The girl had admitted before the court that she was slapped by three men but failed to recognise the arrested accused as the same.
"Despite her exhaustive grilling, she failed to whisper even a single word against accused persons. So much so, she claimed that she was not sexually assaulted or ravished by anyone. Her deposition is confined to the fact of slapping," the court said.
The court termed it "surprising" and "baffling" that how the girl had made such "serious and alarming assertion" of rape before the police when her statement was recorded. The court also said that if it accepts the version of the police that two of the accused were apprehended from the car itself and the girl was also there, still "their mere presence in the car along with the girl does not make them guilty of any offence more so when she was admittedly found to be major."
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