The Allahabad High Court recently acquitted a doctor who was sentenced to life imprisonment last year for raping his 6-year-old daughter in 2018.

A Bench of Justice Siddhartha Varma and Justice Jai Krishan Upadhyay also acquitted the doctor’s brother, who had also earlier been convicted in the case by a trial court.

The case dates back to March 2018 when the minor girl’s mother, also a doctor, lodged a police complaint alleging that her 6-year-old daughter was sexually abused by her husband while she was with him in Haldwani.

The Court found that the child was tutored by her mother, who was estranged from her husband.

She concocted the entire story to indict her husband in such offences which would make him face an imprisonment for life, the Court said.

The accused were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment last year by a trial court. They challenged this verdict before the High Court.

The High Court noted that the child had gone with her father to Haldwani on March 23 her mother consented to the same. The daughter stayed there for 10 days, it added.

The Court found that there was a congenial relationship between the child and her father as well, because photographs placed before it showed her hugging her father and affectionately looking up to him.

The Court also said that there was a contradiction in the statements of the minor and her mother. It noted that while the minor had claimed that her father blocked her mother’s phone number, she also said that she used to talk to her mother everyday from Haldwani.

After going through the evidence, the Court concluded that the mother, through her actions, embroiled the child in the fight between the husband and the wife.

Such SHAMEFUL and HORRIFIC acts of parents affects the children most.