Kid’s testimony alone can safe conviction if dependable, conjures up confidence, says Delhi HC

The Delhi Excessive Courtroom has upheld a person's 12-year jail time period for raping a 10-year previous woman in 2017, saying the kid's testimony impressed confidence and was dependable, and the conviction may relaxation upon it alone.

Justice Manoj Kumar Ohri handed the order on September 3, whereas dismissing an enchantment filed by the convict Tonny.

“The settled place of legislation is that even when the sufferer is the only witness to the incident, a conviction will be sustained if her testimony is discovered to be credible and dependable. If the testimony of the kid sufferer conjures up confidence and is dependable, the conviction can relaxation upon it,” the choose stated.
In keeping with the FIR, the convict labored at a wooden workshop close to the kid's college and lured her with meals gadgets equivalent to chowmein and ‘kachori', earlier than repeatedly raping her inside his store.

He additional threatened to “drown her in a drain or reduce her like a chunk of wooden” if she disclosed the abuse.

The choose famous that kid's stand remained constant and credible, and the accused was not in a position to demolish her testimony in cross-examination