The High Court of Delhi has set aside the conviction and sentence of a man for rape, holding that the prosecution failed to prove “beyond reasonable doubt” that the prosecutrix was below the statutory age of consent, which was 16 years at the time of the incident in 2005. Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma, in a
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