NEW DELHI: Expressing concern over the increasing number of false cases being registered by migrant domestic workers at the instance of their employers, a trial court has acquitted three persons, working at an NGO , of raping a woman after the victim turned hostile.

Additional sessions judge Kamini Lau absolved charges of rape against Shiv Ram, Baldev Jaiswal and Baba Bamdev, all running an NGO for rehabilitation of migrant women, after the victim deposed before the court that she had falsely implicated them at the instance of the owner of a placement agency where she was employed.

Directing the Delhi Police to initiate an inquiry against the person who “pressured” the woman to lodge a false complaint and bring them to book, the court said, “Incidents of gross misuse and abuse of the laws relating to rape and sexual abuse and exploitation of uneducated, ignorant and uninformed domestic workers by unscrupulous persons/ placement agencies etc. for their personal gains, is a matter of serious concern.”

The woman, a migrant from Jharkhand, had alleged that she was raped by the trio on June 2, last year. During the trial, the court however found out that on the date and time of the alleged incident, all the three accused were in the police station in connection with another case.

Later, the victim also turned hostile and told the court that she had falsely implicated these men at the instance of her employer who had some enmity against the accused.

