Realtor Davinder Gill acquitted of rape

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, September 27

A local court here today acquitted realtor Davinder Singh Gill, alias Thapa, in a rape case registered against him by his former associate from the city.

In her complaint, the victim had told the police that she came in contact with Gill in 2008 and he sexually abused her on the pretext of marriage from 2009 onwards. After Gill refused to marry her, she lodged a complaint against him.

Defence lawyer Terminder Singh said Gill had been acquitted as the prosecutrix had given contradictory statement and as per records, the accused in April 2014 had filed a writ petition before the Punjab and Haryana High Court in which he had alleged threat to his life by Punjab Police IGP Gautam Cheema and Ajay Chaudhary. The court passed an order and thereafter, present FIR was registered on July 20, 2014.

As per the records, the prosecutrix got registered an FIR of theft and another complaint in 2013 at Chandigarh and Mohali wherein there no allegation of rape was levelled against Gill.

“That the call records of the phone numbers of the prosecutrix, Chaudhary and Cheema proved that there had been communicating with each other regularly; that the wife of the accused, Gill, had lodged an FIR against the prosecutrix and Cheema. The accused had registered another FIR for extortion against the prosecutrix, along with Cheema and Chaudhary, at Panchkula. The prosecutrix had been changing her statement time and again and there was no evidence to support her version,” added Terminder.