IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Revision No.553 of 2000 Date of Decision 25.03.2010 Jaswinder Kaur ...... Petitioner (s) VERSUS Rajinder Singh and another ...... Respondent(s) CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE A.N.JINDAL Present: Ms.Anubhuti, Advocate, for Mr.Puneet Jindal, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr.Anmol Partap Singh Mann, Advocate, for the respondents. ***** A.N.JINDAL, J(ORAL): Aggrieved against the judgment dated 04.12.1999, passed by Addl. Sessions Judge, Jalandhar, acquitting the accused-respondents (herein referred as 'the accused') of the charges under Section 366, 376 IPC, the petitioner-complainant (herein referred as 'the complainant') has preferred this petition. The prosecutrix (name not disclosed) was allegedly abducted on 18.01.1996. When it came to the knowledge of her paternal aunt Baljit Kaur (Bua), she informed her brother (father of the prosecutrix) about the same. Case was registered and she was recovered on 02.06.1996. Prosecutrix was admittedly more than 16 years old. She appears to be consenting party as she went with Baljit Kumar and stayed with him for about 5 months as his wife. She has materially improved her earlier version. Despite the ample opportunity and sufficient time to inform about her abduction at the hands of the accused, she did not inform any Criminal Revision No.553 of 2000 -2- person with whom she came across. She did not state before the police or the Magistrate that she had refused to sit in the car or that she was forcibly taken in the car. She also did not state before the police that she tried her best to come out of the car or that the accused had locked her in a room or that the accused had forcibly married with her. From the combined reading of her statement and other evidence on record, it transpires that there is a long delay in lodging the FIR. She was a consenting party. No appeal has been filed by the State obviously for the reasons that it was not fit for appeal. Resultantly, finding no merit in the petition, the same is dismissed. (A.N.Jindal) Judge 25.03.2010 mamta-II