Delhi HC grants relief rape convicts on survivor’s application

Delhi | Saturday | 4th January, 2020

Summary:

A+ A-New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has granted relief to two rape convicts, Ganesh and Kismat Ali, after the victim expressed no objection over the reduction of their sentence. The court observed that Ali did not rape the prosecutrix [the victim] and was thus held entitled to a lesser sentence. Later, Ganesh married the victim on January 1, 2003. On January 16, 2006, the sentence of both appellants Ganesh and Ali was suspended. The affidavit of the prosecutrix also reflects that after separation the appellant Ganesh also got married to another woman and has been blessed with two children..