In Brief
A man was convicted of rape by two lower courts and sentenced to seven years imprisonment. The Supreme Court allowed his appeal and acquitted him. The Court found that the prosecution failed to prove the rape charge beyond reasonable doubt because: the complainant was never medically examined; no doctor was called as evidence; the same complainant had made similar false allegations against others in the past; there was proven enmity between the accused and the complainant's husband; the complainant habitually made wild allegations against her husband's adversaries; and there was no credible eyewitness to the alleged incident. Accordingly, the appellant was entitled to acquittal.
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