FIR delay in rape case can be ignored:SC

assaulted by a gang,it was difficult for the woman to promptly lodge a complaint since she has to consider the social stigma attached to it.

A victim of gang rape inevitably suffers acute trauma and it is some time before such a victim is in a position to make a lucid and sensible statement.

“Moreover,rape itself brings enormous shame to the victim and it is after much persuasion that a rape victim goes to the police station to lodge a report and if some delay is occasioned,that cannot in any way detract from the other credible evidence,” the bench said