GHAZIABAD: The district court on Wednesday acquitted two brothers of rape charges filed against them by a woman in 2012 due to lack of evidence. The woman, then 24, had alleged that she had given Rs 6 lakh as loan to the duo, but when she demanded the money back, they refused to return the money and raped her.
The woman, a resident of Vijay Nagar in Ghaziabad, had moved an application in court on February 29, 2012 under Section 156 (3) of CrPc. She said that on January 20, 2010, the duo — Saurabh Singh, then 24, and his brother Rajeev Singh alias Mikku, then 26 — visited her house. “They were known to us. They needed Rs 6 lakh for some personal work and promised to return the money within six months. My husband and I believed them and gave them Rs 6 lakh. However, later they refused to return the money,” she said.
She alleged that on February 26, 2012, Saurabh, Rajeev and three others barged into her house and raped her at gunpoint. She said she had informed the local police, but she was told to get a medical examination done first. “When I visited the hospital, I was told to get the FIR done first,” she said. The woman, therefore, could not get her medical examination done or FIR filed. “ I then decided to move to court,” she said.
The defence lawyer, however, argued that the woman and her husband had snatched three cheques of Rajeev in 2012. “Rajeev had filed a complaint against them at a local police station. Following this, the woman filed a fake rape complaint to pressurise them,” he said. He also argued that the woman did not undergo a medical examination, nor did she raise an alarm after the alleged crime.
Additional sessions judge Ishwar Singh acquitted the two from the charges of sections 376 (rape), 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 504 (intentional insult) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC for lack of evidence.
