Three men acquitted of rape charges

Three men have been acquitted of the charges of gangraping and abducting a girl by a Delhi court which said the victim turned hostile and failed to support the prosecution case.
Additional Sessions Judge T R Naval freed Nazeemuddin, Deepak Aggarwal and Idrish Malik of the charges, saying that the girl had specifically denied that these accused took turns to rape her after abducting her.
"I come to the conclusion that prosecution has failed to prove its case against accused persons beyond any reasonable suspicion and shadow of doubt. The reasons which support my conclusion are firstly that prosecutrix has failed to support the prosecution case," the judge said.

According to the prosecution, in December 2011, the girl was found lying unconscious on a road in Kailash Nagar area in east Delhi and was taken to a hospital by the cops.
When she regained consciousness, she told the police that Nazeemuddin had come to her house in the evening asking her to resolve her issues with Deepak, with whom she had developed an intimate relationship.
However, when she came to know that Deepak was already married and had a child, she stopped meeting him, police said adding that Nazeemuddin took her to Kailash Nagar where Idrish and Azhar, who was absconding, was waiting for them in a car.

The accused asked her to sit in the car and they made her consume a cold drink after which she felt giddy and they took turns to rape her, it said.

When she regained consciousness, she found herself in a godown where Deepak gave her an injection after which she again lost consciousness.
The girl, however, changed her stand in the court saying police officials had taken her signatures on blank papers when she was admitted in the hospital and she had given wrong statement before the magistrate under the threat of the cops who had tutored her.
In the court, she said none of the accused present there had ever committed any wrong act with her and she was declared hostile by the judge.