GHAZIABAD: The district court on Wednesday acquitted two brothers of rape charges filed against them by a woman in 2012 due to lack of evidence. The woman, then 24, had alleged that she had given Rs 6 lakh as loan to the duo, but when she demanded the money back, they refused to return the money and raped her.
The woman, a resident of Vijay Nagar in Ghaziabad, had moved an application in court on February 29, 2012 under Section 156 (3) of CrPc. She said that on January 20, 2010, the duo — Saurabh Singh, then 24, and his brother Rajeev Singh alias Mikku, then 26 — visited her house. “They were known to us. They needed Rs 6 lakh for some personal work and promised to return the money within six months. My husband and I believed them and gave them Rs 6 lakh. However, later they refused to return the money,” she said.
