The court also appreciated the ‘ardous task’ of the trial judge to extract the minor victim’s version of the act where the child stated that the accused had been a ‘bad uncle’.
A division bench of Justices GS Patel and Neela Gokhale was unable to see how a suo motu action in a contractual dispute was maintainable before the state human rights commission
After noting that the 19-year-old accused and the minor girl had stayed together out of friendship, the Court concluded that it would not be in the interest of justice to continue the case.