‘Trial Court justified to declare trial futile after prosecutrix turns hostile and no incriminating evidence is adduced’: J&K and Ladakh HC upholds acquittal in rape case
“The prosecutrix is not an accomplice but rather the victim and the sole injured witness of the assault, and thus her evidence assumes great evidentiary value. But where she declines to identify the perpetrators, she is either a consenting party, or the persons being tried are not the actual perpetrators.”