Man freed of charges of abduction, rape

A man, who was accused of abducting a woman and her minor daughter and raping her, has been freed by a Delhi court saying no inference can be drawn to show that he was guilty as the alleged victims have turned hostile.
Additional Sessions Judge Nivedita Anil Sharma acquitted Sonal Monga, resident of Tagore Garden here, of the charges of rape, kidnapping, abducting with an intent to secretly confine, causing hurt by giving poison and criminal intimidation of the IPC.
The court said no inference can be drawn that accused was guilty of intoxicating and abducting the woman and her daughter and raping and threatening her.

"There is no material on record to suggest that the woman and her daughter were ever intoxicated and abducted and the woman was raped and threatened by accused Sonal.
"No case is made out against the accused as there is no incriminating evidence against him. In fact, the woman has deposed that no one has committed any offence against her and her daughter," the court said, adding that the evidence of the woman and her daughter was also similar as they were hostile.
The court said that prosecution case was neither reliable nor trustworthy and it failed to establish the offence of intoxication, abduction, rape and threat.

"The evidence of the woman, eyewitness and complainant makes it highly improbable that such an incident ever took place. The woman and the eyewitness have deposed that accused has not committed any offence against them," it said.

According to the prosecution, in August, the man abducted the woman and her daughter from Rajouri Garden here with an intention to compel her to have forced illicit intercourse with him.
He gave them an intoxicated drink and took them to a village and later on to a hotel in Chandigarh and Meerut where he raped the woman, it said. A complaint was lodged in the case by the woman's husband.

The woman, however, changed her statement in the court and deposed that the man had not done anything wrong with her and he was innocent and the complaint was lodged against due to some misunderstanding.
The woman's 15-year-old daughter also deposed on similar lines and said they had gone to Punjab with the man of their own and on their return, due to some misunderstanding, her father lodged the complaint against Sonal.
Both the woman and her daughter were declared hostile.