Man held guilty of digital rape

A man has been held guilty of digital rape of a US citizen by a Delhi court, which said her testimony could not be said to be unreliable as she came all the way from her country to depose in the case.

Noting that the woman had no other interest left in India as her marriage had already broken after the incident, additional sessions judge Illa Rawat said the woman’s testimony cannot be discarded despite some discrepancies. When someone rapes a person using his finger or fingers it is termed as digital rape.

According to the complaint, two foreign nationals, of US and Russia, were allegedly sexually abused by their landlord’s son in the early hours of June 24, 2013, when they were sleeping in their rooms. A case was lodged against the accused based on the statement of the US national.

The accused had claimed that there were disputes between him and the woman’s husband which led to lodging of this case. The court said the police failed to prove the

◗ A man has been held guilty of digital rape of a US citizen by a Delhi court, which said her testimony could not be said to be unreliable as she came all the way from her country to depose in the case

charge under section 376 of the Indian Penal Code against the accused in the second case involving the Russian national as it could not produce the victim for deposition before the court.

The accused had entered the room where the US woman was sleeping with her husband on June 24, 2013, between 4 and 4.30 am and had put his finger in her vagina. “The said act of the accused would amount to rape under the amended definition of rape in Section 375 of the IPC, which came into force with effect from February 3, 2013,” the judge said. The court refused to agree with the contention of the accused's counsel that since the forensic result is negative, it proves that he is not guilty.