State’s Challenge to Minor Rape Victim’s Second Statement and Its Insistence on Polygraph Test Questioned: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) recently expressed strong displeasure with the conduct of the Superintendent of Police, Balrampur, after finding that his personal affidavit in a case involving a minor rape victim contained shocking inaccuracies and deliberately concealed crucial facts from the Court. The matter arose from a writ petition filed by the complainant–petitioner seeking a mandamus to transfer the investigation in the abduction and rape case against the…
