By Express News Service
KOCHI: The Kerala High Court has noticed that the concern of social concern concerning the honour of the household and the household life main by her would make a lady extraordinarily reluctant in disclosing an incident of rape.
“When a woman is ravished, a deep sense of deathless shame is caused to her more than the physical injuries. No doubt rape is one of the most heinous atrocities committed on a woman in our society. Sometimes she could not reveal her ordeal to anyone,” noticed the courtroom.
The courtroom added that mere delay in lodging the grievance can’t be thought of as a robust floor to throw away the case of the sufferer. Justice Shircy V issued the order whereas dismissing the anticipatory bail plea of CC Johnson, a former Pastor and a trustee of Emperor Emmanuel Church, Mooriyadu, Thrissur, an accused within the rape case. The case got here to mild after Olympian Mayookha Johny held a press meet and alleged that her good friend was raped in July 2016.
The courtroom mentioned that “of course, the alleged incident was on July 9, 2016. She preferred the complaint almost after four years. Law is well settled that delay in lodging the FIR in a rape case is not of much significance”. The delay in lodging FIR per see is just not deadly. What is deadly is the delay, with out correct clarification.
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According to the sufferer, the horrible incident occurred whereas there have been marriage proposals for her and he or she bought married subsequently within the 12 months 2018. The mere delay in lodging the grievance can’t be thought of as a robust floor to throw away the case of the complainant, the courtroom mentioned.
The prosecution alleged that the accused had captured her bare pictures in his cell phone with the ulterior motive to subjugate her and thereafter threatened her with dire penalties. Later he despatched vulgar and obscene messages to her cell phone. The investigation is in full swing. But because the alleged incident was within the 12 months 2016, and the grievance was lodged solely in 2021 the investigating company couldn’t gather all of the required supplies together with the medical proof.
The courtroom flayed the police and mentioned that “there was no such attempt on the side of the investigating agency to collect the details, if any, available in the mobile phone of the accused.” The courtroom famous that instantly after the incident the sufferer had consulted a woman physician. Whether the investigating company might collect any supporting proof from the physician with whom the sufferer had a session instantly after the incident, can be not revealed from the information.
Hence, custodial interrogation of the accused is inevitable for the investigating company to have an efficient investigation on this case. The courtroom directed the accused to give up forthwith and co-operate with the investigation.
