A Dwarka court on Wednesday acquitted former Congress MP from West Delhi Mahabal Mishra, his wife, brother, daughter and four others in a kidnapping-cum-rape case of 2006.
“Vide separate judgment announced in open court today, all the accused have been acquitted,” Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat said in his order. The Delhi Police had registered the case under Sections 346 (wrongful confinement) and 366 (abducting or abducting a woman to compel her marriage or cause her defilement) of the Indian Penal Code. The victim’s father had alleged Pradeep Shehrawat had kidnapped his daughter.
Later, the girl in her police statement and thereafter in a statement recorded by a Metropolitan Magistrate, had alleged she was kept in the house of Mahabal Mishra and his brother at Mahavir Enclave and confined there for three or four days. Thereafter, she was kept at Mahabal Mishra’s office. Mr. Mishra’s family had told her to marry Pradeep Shehrawat, the girl alleged.
