The Supreme Court restores the acquittal in Ram Singh v. State of Himachal Pradesh, with Bar & Bench saying the High Court overlooked medical and forensic evidence.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday, August 11, restored the acquittal of a man accused of raping a five-year-old girl in Ram Singh v. State of Himachal Pradesh, according to Bar & Bench and LiveLaw.
LiveLaw reported that a bench of Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice Atul S. Chandurkar decided the case. Bar & Bench reported that the Court found the High Court had reversed the trial court's acquittal without properly considering the medical and forensic evidence on record.
LiveLaw reported that the Court held the absence of blood on the victim's clothes and the lack of any injury on her body, as reflected in the forensic and medical evidence, created a grave doubt about the prosecution's case. LiveLaw's headline said the forensic evidence contradicted the prosecution version.
The tags on LiveLaw's report refer to Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code. The full text of the LiveLaw reports is behind a subscription wall.
