The Delhi High Court upheld a 12-year jail sentence of a person in the case of rape of a 10-year-old girl in 2017 and said that the testimony of the victim is reliable and can only be convicted on this basis.
Justice Manoj Kumar Ohri passed the order on September 3, dismissing the appeal of a person named Tony convicted in the case. The judge said, “The established situation of the law is that even if the victim is the only witness to the incident, if her testimony is found to be reliable and reliable, the conviction can be retained. If the testimony of the victim is reliable, then the conviction can be based on the same. ”
According to the FIR, the convict used to work in a furniture shop near the girl’s school and raped the victim several times by luring food items like chowmin and kachori.
In addition, the person had threatened that if he told someone about this, he would “sink it in the drain or put it in pieces like wood.” The judge said that the girl’s statement was uniform and reliable and the person could not deny her testimony during the cross-examination.