In Absence Of Any Resistance Or Alarm It Cannot Be Said Victim Was Kidnapped: Calcutta High Court Acquits Two

Case: Mangal Das Adhikary Vs. The State of West Bengal With Connected Matter

Coram: Justice Sugato Majumdar

Case No.: CRA 226 of 2015

Court Observation: “She is a grown up girl. She did not raise any hue and cry or ask for rescue to any person of the bus including the conductor.”

“Evidences adduced on behalf of the prosecution suffer from serious contradictions, incongruous and inconsistencies which the Trial Court failed to take notice. There was a flawed appreciation of evidence on the part of the Trial Court. Therefore, the findings demands interference of this Court and are liable to be set aside.”

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Absence Of Any Resistance, Victim Was Kidnapped