{"id":2941,"date":"2026-09-03T19:36:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2026-09-03T19:36:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:36:03","slug":"delhi-high-court-overturns-rape-acquittal-in-case-involving-four-year-old-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/delhi-high-court-overturns-rape-acquittal-in-case-involving-four-year-old-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi High Court Overturns Rape Acquittal in Case Involving Four-Year-Old Child"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New Delhi:<\/strong> The Delhi High Court overturned a trial court&#8217;s acquittal of a man on a rape charge in a case involving a child who was four years old at the time of the offence. The High Court said a child of that age cannot be expected to describe a sexual assault using precise legal or medical terminology and noted that the trial court had failed to properly consider medical and forensic evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Action to Be Taken<\/strong><br>Reports of child sexual abuse should be taken seriously and referred to the appropriate authorities. A child&#8217;s identity and personal information must be protected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Delhi High Court overturned a trial court&#8217;s acquittal of a man on a rape charge in a case involving a child who was four years old at the time of the offence. The High Court said a child of that age cannot be expected to describe a sexual assault using precise legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2944,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions\/2944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}