False cases behind Delhi's tag of rape capital: Court

July 27, 2013 19:29

False cases are the reasons behind the labelling of Delhi as the 'rape capital' of India, a city court has held while acquitting a 75-year-old man of the charge of sexually assaulting his maid after the woman turned hostile.

The court said after the December 16 gangrape of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in Delhi, it lead to the creation of an atmosphere that "the mere statement of a lady that she has been raped came to be taken as gospel truth, the accused was arrested and chargesheeted".

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