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MUMBAI: After spending 8 years successful jailhouse connected charges of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old intellectually disabled girl, a 56-year-old operator was precocious acquitted by a peculiar Pocso court.The prosecution failed to beryllium the “basic foundational facts” of the case, highlighting large inconsistencies regarding the girl’s age, her intelligence capacity, and a important contradiction betwixt her statements and the aesculapian report. “To my mind, grounds adduced by the prosecution is scanty and not capable to beryllium the guilt of the accused beyond tenable doubt. If it were so, to my mind, the accused is entitled to get the payment of doubt,” Special Judge ND Khose said.Advocates Kalam Shaikh and Vaishali Sawant, who defended the accused, submitted that helium was falsely implicated owed to a past struggle betwixt the girl’s household and him.“No documentary grounds is placed connected grounds showing that the unfortunate is abnormal. Medical grounds is besides not supporting the lawsuit of the prosecution,” the advocates submitted.The FIR was lodged connected Aug 24, 2017. The prosecution alleged that the incidental occurred connected Aug 23, 2017, betwixt 8 p.m. and 8.30pm successful a slum area.
Prosecution failed to beryllium miss was nether property of 18: JudgeThe parent of the miss claimed that portion she was astatine the marketplace and her sons were out, the accused, a neighbour, entered their house. The girl, allegedly a kid of 17 years with “less understanding”, aboriginal told her parent that the accused had kissed her and established carnal relations.The justice noted that the prosecution failed to supply “clinching, believable and authentic documentary evidence” to beryllium she was nether 18. “To my mind, the (birth) certificate… cannot beryllium said to beryllium utile to the prosecution for respective reasons... Not lone that, from the certificate… it reveals that the names of the begetter and parent of the miss are not mentioned arsenic mentioned successful a report... As such, to my mind, it tin beryllium said that nary plausible documentary grounds is placed connected grounds by the prosecution to beryllium the nonstop property of the miss connected the alleged day of the incident.
”The justice said portion the FIR suggested the twelvemonth of commencement was 2000, the schoolhouse certificate indicated 2002. While the prosecution attempted to beryllium the miss had an IQ of 36, the justice recovered this assertion unproven.
