Court issues bailable warrants against ‘victim’

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 24

A local court today issued bailable warrants against the ‘victim’ in the city’s ‘love jihad’ case. She had not appeared in the court to record her statement and thus the action was taken by the court.

She has been asked to be present in the court on the next date of hearing i.e. on October 9.

Earlier this month, the court framed rape and criminal intimidation charges against the accused, a Srinagar resident. The 19-year-old girl from the city had approached the High Court alleging that the minor had raped her and forcibly converted her to Islam.

According to the girl’s original plea, the accused befriended her on Facebook in January 2016. In November, they both met when the accused came to Chandigarh and the girl got to know that he was a Muslim. She alleged that they again met in April 2017 when the accused forced her into a physical relationship and took objectionable pictures.

She had alleged that she was forced to convert to Islam and later in mid-2017, she went to Srinagar where she was raped by five members of his family.

On June 4 this year, she alleged an acid attack while going to the juvenile court. However, doctors found no such injury on her face and the fact was corroborated in the police’s status report.

As per the accused’s counsel Terminder Singh, the boy is being falsely implicated. “The girl refused a medical examination and has not been able to prove her age”. The status report of the police had also pointed out that in the record obtained from the Indian Audit and Accounts Department, her name is different from what she had mentioned and there was a gap of three years in the birth date revealed by her and in the records.