Detailed and explicit WhatsApp conversations between a rape victim and three law students of a private university in Haryana proved crucial evidence for their conviction by a trial court, show documents made available on Monday. He had stored the pictures in an web storage platform – Apple’s I-cloud -- and threatened to make them public on the university’s website. The judge said the messages proved the victim was under “stress” and “duress” to keep sharing more nude pictures with Sikri. “The court accepted the evidence because it was original and taken from the girl’s cellphone directly,” he told HT. The judge also disagreed with the defence advocate’s attempt to tarnish the girl’s reputation, saying a rape victim cannot be viewed as an accomplice.

Source: Hindustan Times June 05, 2017 18:05 UTC