Delhi court acquits four men in gang-rape case

A court here has acquitted four men accused of gang-raping a woman, observing that the victim was a call girl and lodged a false case in anger after they refused the pay her the agreed amount.

Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat, in an order delivered last week, acquitted Anil Dahiya, Vikas Sharma, Ramesh Sharma and Vinod Kumar of the charges of gang-raping the woman.

The court order came after the victim, who works in a beauty parlour in south Delhi, gave clean chit to the men while recording her statement as a prosecution witnesses before it.

She told the court that the accused had not committed any forcible act with her and the physical relations between her and the accused were with consent.

The order was delivered on August 6 but was released on Thursday.

A case was lodged against the four men in November 2014 for gangraping the woman in a hotel in west Delhi's Dwarka.

However, the woman told the court that on November 9, 2014, accused Ramesh and Vikas took her to Dwarka on the pretext of spending the whole night with them. Instead of paying the agreed amount of Rs.6,000, they paid her only Rs.4,000.

"I am a call girl," the woman told the court.

The woman said she got enraged and made a call to police. "I had levelled various allegations against the accused in that statement as I was in a state of anger."