Court advises parental tabs on teen girls

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has advocated counselling and parental tabs on teenaged girls in order to protect them from bad influences, while acquitting a youth of the charge of raping a class IX student.

“With society opening up, teenagers are exposed to a whole lot of vices. Perhaps the need for counselling, parental tabs and monitoring of teenaged girls appears to be the requirement of the day as they are susceptible to various influences,” additional sessions Judge Anoop Kumar Mendiratta said while acquitting one Vikas Kumar and his parents Kishan Dev and Kaushalya, who were accused under various provisions of the IPC, including that of wrongful confinement and kidnapping.

The court noted that the alleged victim absolved the accused in her testimony as she had been blessed with a child. Her father also did not support the case out of affection for her and in order to save the remnants of her married life with the accused, it added.

According to the complaint, the girl initially submitted to circumstances of sexual assault on September 9, 2005 and revealed the incident to her parents after two months.

“The complaint was projected to be that of rape even for a sexual relationship which was established in the house of the accused wherein she resided on her own free will,” the court said.