Chandigarh, Sept. 9 -- The fast track special court headed by additional sessions judge Yashika acquitted the accused in a two-year-old rape case of a 19-year-old girl due to lack of evidence. As per the prosecution, the accused Vibaash, a resident of Pulsora in Sector 55, raped the girl and impregnated her.

While the victim had turned hostile in court, prosecution relied on medical evidence to prove that the accused raped the girl as he was the biological father of the fetus taken out from her womb following medical termination of her pregnancy. However, the court stated that the medical evidence is unsupportive as the victim has denied that the accused raped her or was the father of her biological child.

"It is crystal clear that the ...