Court pulls up woman for changing stand during rape trial

A 39-year-old woman has been pulled up by a Delhi court for changing her stand during the trial in a rape case lodged by her against a boy who used to give tuitions to her children.
Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri reprimanded the woman after she admitted that she had lodged a false case against the boy at the behest of her husband and directed her to file an affidavit regarding her contentions.
The judge, while granting interim bail to the accused till January 13, warned the woman that an adverse order could be passed against her if she again changed her version, as she has done in the past, due to which the boy was behind bars for the last three months.

The woman, thereafter, filed an affidavit saying that the FIR against the boy had been lodged under pressure from her husband.
The court sought the affidavit after being informed by the boy's counsel that although the woman had alleged rape in her statement recorded before a magistrate, her stand had changed at the police station where she stated that she had been forced by her husband to file the complaint.
The court was hearing the bail plea filed by the 19-year -old B.Com first-year student who pleaded that he be granted bail and contended that the case against him was false.

He said that he had never entered into any kind of sexual relations with the woman.
However, police opposed his request saying that a similar plea had been filed by him in Delhi High Court, which had been dismissed after the investigating officer sought his custody for recovering the objectionable photographs and jewellery which he had allegedly taken away from the woman's house.
The court partially allowed the boy's plea and asked him to join the investigation.