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Bail granted to rape accused

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: A court here on Wednesday granted bail to a man accused of kidnapping and criminally assaulting a 17-year-old girl, noting that the victim was deliberately avoiding court appearances and that she had lodged similar complaints at other police stations. The court also relied on the counselling report of the victim in which it was said that she did not show any signs of trauma.

Additional Sessions Judge Narottam Kaushal granted bail to accused Pradeep Kumar on a personal bond of Rs. 25,000 and one surety of like amount.

The court took cognisance of the victim’s counselling report, prepared by Swanchetan Society for Mental Health, which stated that she had narrated the whole incident to the doctor “very calmly” and showed no unusual effect of trauma throughout the session.

Earlier, counsel for the accused had also submitted that the victim and her parents had registered similar complaints at police stations in Bawana and Narela in North-West Delhi and also the Sector-58 police station at Noida in U.P.

The Tilak Nagar police had registered a case against the accused on June 27 last year, following a complaint by a man claiming that his 17-year-old daughter had been kidnapped on her way to a tailoring institute. The police had recovered the girl from the Nizamuddin railway station 10 days later.

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