Interpreter’s assistance must while recording statement of mentally-challenged rape victims: HC
The Hindu
Sets aside a statement recorded by a Metropolitan Magistrate directly without any assistance.
The Madras High Court has disapproved of the act of a Metropolitan Magistrate in having refused to take the assistance of a special educator/interpreter while recording the statement of a mentally-challenged rape victim.
Justice M. Nirmal Kumar set aside the statement recorded by XVIII Metropolitan Magistrate at Saidapet in Chennai on August 25 and ordered fresh recording of the statement under Section 164 of Code of Criminal Procedure.
The judge directed the prosecution to approach the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate to nominate another Magistrate to record the statement afresh and insisted that a woman Magistrate should be nominated since the victim would have to explain the sexual assault in detail.
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