NEW DELHI: A CISF constable has been acquitted of the charges of raping a woman by a trial court after the complainant resiled from her earlier statement and said that she had tied the knot with him.

The court freed the man observing that the woman lodged the case out of anger against the man "as he was delaying their marriage."

"She made the complaint out of anger and due to misunderstanding as the accused was delaying marriage against the accused beyond reasonable doubt," additional sessions judge Yogesh Khanna said.

While letting off the man, the court noted that the woman admitted that physical relations between them were "consensual".

"In view of the facts and circumstances of the case, where the prosecutrix (complainant) has turned hostile and had not supported the case of prosecution and had rather stated that she had sexual intercourse with accused with her consent on all times prior to her marriage. Since nothing incriminating had turned up against the accused, he is thus acquitted of the charges under sections 417 (cheating) and 376 (rape) of the IPC," the court said.

A case was registered against the constable, who was posted at ONGC in Gujarat in 2012, after on the complaint of the woman alleged he had raped her on March 8 and 9, 2013 in a hotel near Nizamuddin Railway station while he was on his way to Surat via Delhi. The woman, however, changed her statement in court and during her cross-examination, she deposed that she had met the accused at a park in the capital May 2012 and had developed friendship after which she used to talk to him on phone as he has promised to marry her.

The woman further deposed that physical relations between them were with her consent and she had filed the complaint out of anger and due to misunderstanding. She told the judge that on September 13 last year, they got married and were now living happily. She denied in the court that the accused ever raped her on the promise of marriage.

