Aurangabad: The sessions court on Tuesday acquitted two people in the rape case of a 10-year-old girl after it found serious contradictions in the statement given by the victim before the police, special magistrate and the special court.While acquitting the accused duo, the court expressed serious displeasure over the manner in which the police investigated the case and passed strictures against them. The court also expressed its unhappiness over head mistress of the school where the victim studied.The court found that while recording evidence the prosecution has diverted its story and several things are brought on record by victim which is not stated before the police.The incident had come to light on December 1, 2014, when the girl was allegedly raped by auto-rickshaw drivers of the school. Based on the complaint lodged by her father, the accused duo was arrested by the Kranti Chowk police station. There was a third accused in the case, brother of one of the victims, but he died a few months before the case was registered.All the accused were charged for threatening the minor girl with dire consequences, voluntarily causing hurt and gang raping her on different occasions between June 2013 and November 2014. The accused were also slapped with the stringent section of Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.The additional sessions judge UL Telgaonkar, while acquitting the accused duo, observed that the evidence is not consistent on the point of very cause of action as to how the parents of victim came to know about the incident.The court ruled that from the evidence on record it is clear that there were security guards and watchmen engaged for maintenance of the parking place. But not a single witness has been examined by the prosecution.The court observed that the victim has stated the incident in different manner at every place. There was no consistency in her statement.The court further observed that in the statement before police the victim said that one of the accused took her to the parking lot and raped her, but while giving statement before special judicial magistrate she said another accused had gagged her along with her friend and took them in the parking lot, where they were raped.The court questioned the police as to why the statement of victim's friend was not recorded when she clearly stated that her friend was allegedly raped by the accused. The police also failed to record the statement of the victim's mother with whom the minor had shared her alleged ordeal.The court also came down heavily on the special squad's woman assistant inspector Archana Patil when the court found that the victim girl stated that the then assistant commissioner of police (traffic) Khushalchand Baheti was present at the time of recording statement and the same thing was denied by Patil.

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