False Rape Case on Doctors: Court initiates Criminal Proceedings

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fails the test of a sterling witness”, the high court noted that solely relying on the testimony of the woman was a “dangerous proposition” as other witnesses such as the office caretaker had deposed that she never came to the office that day.

The court further observed that the behaviour of the woman was “highly doubtful” as she did not disclose the incident to anyone including her husband but chose to wait 22 days to narrate the incident to her brother in-law, whose taxi service was previously terminated by the same office.

Holding that there was a conscious and deliberate effort to misuse the process of law to initiate false proceedings given the  motive to extract revenge to extract revenge against the two doctors, the court directed that criminal proceedings against the woman and her brother-in-law should be initiated for giving false evidence in court.

Coming out in support of the doctors,  the a bench of Justice GS Sistani and Justice AK Chawla said, stated that such cases cannot be “taken lightly as a false accusation of rape may be as damning to an accused as to a victim of rape

“The accused may be shunned in the society and by his own family, spouse and children for no fault of his own only because one woman has levelled false allegations of rape in pursuance of her evil design,” the bench remarked.