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Rameshwar Kohli (40) was booked by the Sion police for rape under Section 376 of the IPC which pertains to rape, but Additional Sessions Judge S M Bhumkar found him guilty under Section 354 of the IPC on the lesser charge of “outraging the modesty of a woman”. The court decided that the medical evidence against Kohli was inconclusive. The complainant in the case was the victim’s aunt who told police that she had hired Kohli’s taxi on June 8, 2003, at Dharavi to go to Wadala. She said in the First Information Report that Kohli took them to a road near Mumbai Port Trust Hospital and raped the girl.
According to procedure, the police sent the girl for a medical test but a team of three doctors from Sion Hospital said that there wasn’t enough evidence to conclude that the victim had been raped by Kohli. He was therefore sentenced to a year in jail and fined Rs 2,000.
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