Man charged with stalking let off by court

New Delhi: A man, who was earlier held guilty by a magisterial court for stalking a woman, was discharged of all the charges after it noted that the prosecutrix was in habit of lodging fake FIRs of sexual offences.

The sessions court also noted that the lower court even did not peruse the call details record (CDR) of the accused and the prosecutrix.

“The same lady is lodging so many FIRs against so many persons. This is not just a coincidence. The metropolitan magistrate (MM) shut her eyes to this aspect. The MM did not think it proper to spare a thought as to why so many FIRs were lodged by the same lady, most of which were regarding sexual offences,” the court made the observation which acquitting Naveen Kumar of all the charges.

The trial court held Kumar guilty. He then moved a revision petition before the sessions court against the order of trial court.

In his plea filed through advocate R.K. Chaudhary, the accused had contended that the complainant was a habitual extortionist and used false FIRs to extract money from innocent people. He had argued that several FIRs had been registered against the complainant herself for extortion and that she was lodged in judicial custody in such cases.

“Taking into account the fact of lodging so many FIRs by the complainant, the contention of counsel for the petitioner/ accused cannot be ignored. It appears to be modus operandi of the complainant to lodge false FIRs and extort money from innocent persons,” the sessions judge said. According to the prosecution, an FIR was lodged by the woman alleging that Kumar and two others were stalking her and repeatedly making phone calls to her in 2013. The trial court, however, had framed charges against Kumar only.

The accused had in 2014 filed a cross complaint against the woman for lodging a false stalking case to extort money, after which a city court had directed Delhi police to register an FIR against her.