Friday, January 13, 2006
Rape Victim Accused Her Own Brother in India
In a shocking incident in which a seventh grade girl had accused her brother Beeru (25) of raping her for nearly a year, a local Sessions court in Chandigarh on Friday acquitted the man because the prosecution failed to bring forth any corroborative evidence while the girl and her mother, the only prosecution witnesses in the case, turned hostile.
While passing the order, Additional District and Sessions Judge RS Baswana said, "What to speak of reasonable and satisfactory evidence, there is not even an iota of incriminating evidence against the accused...
Accordingly I hold that the prosecution has miserably failed to establish on file that the accused sexually assaulted his own sister."
In an incident that had evoked widespread outrage, Beeru, an electrician, had been arrested in July last year on a complaint lodged by his father Daulat Ram, a resident of Colony Number 5.
Booked on charges of rape and criminal intimidation, Beeru had been allegedly raping his kid sister for more than a year.
When she could no longer stand being subjected to the regular sexual assaults, the teenage girl had told her mother of her brother's alleged misdeeds.
After hearing the shocking revelation, the mother informed her husband, who had reported the matter to the police. Nearly 50 colony residents had crowded the Sector 34 police station at 2.30 in the night, demanding Beeru's arrest.
In her statement before the police, the victim had said that her brother had been raping her and had threatened to kill her in case she told anyone about the abuse. But later in court both mother and daughter denied that any such incident took place.
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Poor child.
