

NEW DELHI: A trial court has acquitted a man , accused of raping a girl who later had a child, on the basis of DNA test conducted on the baby which turned out to be negative. The court let off the accused and held that the girl had sexual relations with "someone else".

"I find it difficult to ignore the DNA report, which totally exculpates the accused. The report throws in the probability that prosecutrix (girl) was having sexual intercourse with somebody else," said additional sessions judge Virender Bhat.

Stating the prosecution failed to establish the case, the court said, "The DNA report creates a big dent in prosecution case and makes it highly improbable and untrustworthy. The DNA of the accused does not match with the DNA isolated from the blood sample of the child born to the girl and hence the accused is not the biological father of the female child."

The man, a carpenter by profession, was arrested in July 2012 on the complaint lodged by the girl's mother, who had alleged that while she was away for her job, he used to visit her house and rape her 16-year-old daughter. "The accused raped the girl whenever he found her alone and threatened her that if she disclosed the incident to anybody, he would kill all her family members. After some time, the girl felt pain in her abdomen and was taken to a nearby doctor and it was found that she was pregnant," the police had said.