Taking note of the flip-flops of the victim while being deposed in a gangrape case, district and sessions judge S.P. Garg has absolved 3 men of the charges of abducting a girl from a bus stop near the Supreme Court and raping her for almost a month in captivity.
The court absolved the three accused — Amit Nagar and co-accused Anshul Kumar Pandey and Bhal Balender Pathak — of the charges of gangrape and kidnapping, after noting that she turned hostile and gave a clean chit to the under-trials.
While acquitting the three accused, the court said, “Material prosecution witnesses (the girl and her mother) examined by the prosecutor have turned hostile and did not support the case... The victim rather testified that she had accompanied the accused with her free consent.” The girl, in her earlier statement to a metropolitan magistrate, had deposed that she was allegedly forced to sit in a car by Amit, who was known to her since the college days, when she was waiting for a bus near the SC on the evening of August last year. Later, she was taken to a place in South Delhi and then to various destinations at Hardwar, Rishikesh and Noida where the three accused allegedly took turns to rape her for almost a month. On September 26, she managed to flee from a flat in Greater Noida, she had said.
The girl, however, took a U-turn while recording her statement during the trial and said “none of the accused had established physical relations with her.”