{"id":221127,"date":"2019-10-18T18:19:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T12:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=221127"},"modified":"2019-11-29T11:26:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T05:56:19","slug":"sc-quashes-trial-against-a-man-in-a-sexual-assault-case-of-a-6-year-old-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/10\/18\/sc-quashes-trial-against-a-man-in-a-sexual-assault-case-of-a-6-year-old-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"SC quashes trial against a man in a sexual assault case of a 6-year-old. Here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Supreme Court<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe heinous crime committed should not be led into prosecuting a person only because he was part of the Management of the School.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bench of L Nageswara Rao and Hemant Gupta, JJ said while quashing the trial against a member of the School management in a case relating to sexual assault of a 6-year-old girl in her school in Haldwani.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The FIR filed by the father of the prosecuterix mentioned that a teacher had sexually assaulted his daughter. In the first statement recorded, the prosecuterix mentioned that the teacher had deliberately and repeatedly assaulted her. However, in another statement, she stated that <em>after she returned from washroom, two Uncles came and picked her away<\/em>. She also mentioned that these two persons work outside school. She said that one of them wore spectacles. The father of the prosecutrix filed an application to summon the person who wears spectacles, as identified by the victim. She then identified the appellant as the bespectacled person. The principal of the School, however, in a statement issued by her, said that the anger was directed against the Management of the School of which the appellant is a part and hence, his name was dragged in a offence he never committed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, the Court noticed that the prosecutrix is a small child. It is parents of the child who have taken the photographs either from the website of the School or from the Facebook to introduce a person with spectacles as an accused. The initial version of the father of the prosecutrix and of the prosecutrix herself, as disclosed by her father in the FIR, is assault by one person. It said that even if the father of the child has basis to be angry with the Management of the School but, there is no prima facie case of any active part on the part of the appellant is made out in violating the small child. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>The involvement of other persons on the statement of the child of impressionable age does not inspire confidence that the appellant is liable to be proceeded under Section 319 of the Code. In fact, it is suggestive role of the family which influences the mind of the child to indirectly implicate the appellant<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cObviously, the father of the child must have anger against the Management of the School as his child was violated when she was studying in the School managed by the appellant but, we find that the anger of the father against the Management of the School including the appellant is not sufficient to make him to stand trial for the offences punishable under Section 376(2) of the IPC read with Sections 5\/6 of the POCSO Act.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court also took note of the fact that <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>the prosecution after investigations has found no material to charge the appellant<\/em><\/span>. It, hence, held that statement of the child so as to involve a person wearing spectacles as an accused does not inspire confidence disclosing more than prima facie to make him to stand trial of the offences. Therefore, the order of summoning the appellant under Section 319 of the Code is not legal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[Mani Pushpak Joshi v. State of Uttarakhand, <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/OrvzYnr1\">2019 SCC OnLine SC 1362<\/a>,<\/b>\u00a0decided on 17.10.2019]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court: \u201cThe heinous crime committed should not be led into prosecuting a person only because he was part of the Management <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":154914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[16961,16941,23204,2572,6191],"class_list":["post-221127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-supremecourt","tag-crime-against-children","tag-crime-against-women","tag-pocso","tag-Rape","tag-sexual-assault"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SC quashes trial against a man in a sexual assault case of a 6-year-old. 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