ahmedabad in a strange case a girl has been claiming that she was repeatedly raped videographed and blackmailed but the courts have refused to believe her and held that she was making false claims they have concluded that she was a consenting partner but tried to frame the boyshruti patel from mehsana claimed that during marchapril last year mahesh chaudhary repeatedly raped videorecorded her in compromising positions on his mobile phone and thereafter used the recording to threaten her into submission on subsequent occasions upon this complaint investigation was carried out and a chargesheet was filed against chaudhary the trial took place and the accused was acquitted by the sessions judgethe trial court refused to believe that the girl was forced into the relationship the court also noticed that she voluntarily went to the boy stayed with him and went to see films with his family members it noted that on certain occasions she had even lied before her family that she was going to meet girls when she had actually gone to meet chaudhary moreover she never took into confidence any of her relatives or friends which should have been the case if she was being harassed and pressurised for the relationship the court also observed that the girl could not prove that she was ever photographed in nude by the boy after the acquittal the state government did not file an appeal against the order but the girl approached the high court demanding punishment for the boy justice akil kureshi who heard the revision application concluded that the lower court had taken into consideration various aspects before acquitting the accusedthe girl was17 years and three months old on the said date of the incident but the trial court found that she being more than 16 years of age her consent became relevant so the boy could not be held guilty of raping a minorevidence on record permitted conclusion of innocence of the accused even if two views are possible in the revision application against the judgment of acquittal no interference would be called for justice kureshi concluded and turned down her applicationnames of litigants have been changed to protect their identities