The Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court acquitted a man sentenced to 20 years for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl. The court stressed that medical evidence alone cannot secure a conviction without corroborating evidence. Key witnesses turned hostile, and the court deemed relying solely on medical findings as insufficient for upholding the conviction.
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