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New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): The Tis Hazari Court has directed the filing of a complaint against a woman for committing the offence of perjury by giving a false statement in a rape case against a person.
“It takes one’s lifetime to build a reputation but only a few lies to destroy the same,” the court said.
While acquitting the accused, the court noted that it is evident from the record that the prosecutrix gave a false deposition before the court and concocted a mendacious story of rape and threat.
The woman, a resident of Ujjain, had alleged that she was called by the accused to Delhi for sightseeing and was raped in a hotel in Nabi Kareem area in November 2019.
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Anuj Agarwal acquitted the accused, citing the false statement given by the prosecutrix.
While acquitting the accused, the court stated, “Though, it is trite to state that testimony of a prosecutrix, if found to be trustworthy and credible, requires no independent corroboration, however, in the instant case, the victim’s testimony is not of sterling quality for the reasons as already discussed above.”
“Rather, it is evident from the record that the prosecutrix gave false deposition before this court and concocted a mendacious story of rape/threat,” ASJ Agarwal said in the judgment of April 4.
The court further considered that the false rape case had made the accused aggrieved. “The word ‘aggrieved’ cannot be confined only to the complainant but there may be cases where even the accused becomes the real sufferer, standing before the court with folded hands and beseeching justice for themselves,” the court said.
ASJ Anuj Agarwal remarked, “It takes one’s lifetime to build a reputation but only a few lies to destroy the same. Therefore, in my view, an acquittal simpliciter cannot recompense the agony of the accused who had to undergo the trauma of trial for such heinous offences based on a false story of sexual assault.”
“Since it is clear from the record that the prosecutrix made a false statement before this court, let a complaint under section 379 Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita [BNSS] for offences of perjury as punishable under section 229/231 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita [BNS] be sent against her to the court of Learned Chief Judicial Magistrate (Central) by the Ahlmad of this court,” the court ordered. (ANI)
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