A special court for gender-based violence on Tuesday acquitted a man of raping his step-daughter.

The prosecution said the Manawan police had lodged the FIR against Zulfiqar Ali on the complaint of his wife.

The suspect’s counsel argued that the woman made her daughter give a false statement against her step-father.

He claimed that the woman nurtured a grudge against her husband as he used to stop her from ‘immoral’ activities.

He said the alleged commission of the crime had not been established in the medical examination of the victim.

The court acquitted the suspect by giving him the benefit of the doubt.

Source: Dawn