Court convicts man of molesting specially-abled woman

A man has been held guilty of molesting a specially-abled woman at her residence by a Delhi court which relied on her testimony saying she "is soft target" as she is not in a condition to properly defend herself from such an assault.
Metropolitan Magistrate Richa Parihar convicted Rajbir Singh, resident of Mayur Vihar here, of the offence of molestation under section 354 of the IPC .
"Complainant and her husband are both handicapped and the fact that accused was present at their house indicates the likelihood that the incident as alleged must have happened as the victim is a handicapped lady and is soft target not being in a condition to properly defend herself from the assault.

"The evidence of complainant and other prosecution witnesses has been consistent and corroborated and there is nothing on record to disbelieve their evidence.The prosecution has successfully proved its case against the accused and accused is hereby convicted of offence under 354 IPC," the court said.
According to prosecution, on June 26, 2004, the woman, suffering disability in her leg, alleged that she was at her residence when Rajbir came and misbehaved with her by inappropriately touching her and talking in indecent manner.
When she raised an alarm, her husband and the other family members came there and Rajbir ran away, it said.

However, during the trial he contended that he has been falsely implicated in this matter by the woman's husband as he he had given him some money as a loan and had demanded it back from him.