GANGTOK, India, June 25 -- Sikkim High Court issued the following judgment/order on June 19:
1. The Prosecution case commenced with the lodging of the FIR (Exbt P-1/PW-1) by PW-1, the uncle of the victim, alleging that on 07-02-2022, PW-2, his niece, the victim had gone for tuition. She called him up that evening from her friend's mobile to inform him that she would sleep over at her friend's house and return the next morning. When she failed to return the next morning, he set out to look for her. She was traced at 02.00 p.m., on 08-02-2022, near the town butchers shop. On enquiry from her, she reported that the Appellant had taken her to an abandoned building and raped her there.
(i) Charge-sheet was submitted against the Appellant under...