New Delhi, July 25 -- The Delhi High Court has acquitted a man who had been convicted of rape and house trespass.

The High Court set aside the trial court's order and acquitted Dildar of offences under Sections 376 (rape) and 457 (lurking house trespass) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The case pertains to an FIR registered at Nand Nagri Police Station in 2012.

Justice Vimal Kumar Yadav acquitted Dildar while allowing his appeal against the trial court's judgment.

The High Court ruled that the prosecutrix was above the age of consent at the time of the incident and that the physical relationship was consensual.

Justice Yadav observed, "Trepidated by the presence of a stranger, that too in the wee hours of the night, was sufficient to ...