NEW DELHI: The Delhi top courtroom has slapped a positive of Rs 10,000 on an accused for announcing that quashing a rape case towards him can be within the pastime of the minor survivor, who in a different way must face “stigma”. Terming his argument “obnoxious, to mention the least”, Justice Girish Kathpalia famous in a contemporary judgement, “The stigma must be, now not at the sufferer of the flawed, however at the wrongdoer. There must be a paradigm shift in societal mindset by way of (now not) attaching the stigma… to the woman who underwent the horrid struggling by means of rape.”
Pronouncing so, the pass judgement on refused to quash rape court cases towards the person and likewise rejected the competition of his recommend that the oldsters of the survivor had “settled” the topic with him. Handiest survivor will have pardoned the culprit: HC This argument could also be totally devoid of benefit. For, it’s the minor lady, and now not her oldsters, who was once wronged and suffered on account of the alleged act at the a part of the petitioner (accused),” the pass judgement on additional famous.It underscored that handiest the survivor “will have pardoned the culprit, that too in positive particular prerequisites. As discussed above, the prosecutrix remains to be a minor lady.” Consistent with an FIR lodged in 2024, the woman was once blackmailed right into a bodily courting by way of the accused after capturing her video. A case of rape was once registered towards the person beneath the provisions of Pocso Act and BNS.In his plea prior to HC, the accused sought an finish to the case at the floor that the sufferer’s oldsters had settled with him. Opposing the plea, the Delhi Police maintained the accused was once absconding and is a proclaimed culprit whilst the sufferer is a minor, so no agreement is legally permissible.