Bengaluru: A sessions court in Bengaluru on Wednesday acquitted French diplomat Pascal Mazurier, 44, of the charges of rape. Pascal Mazurier was accused of raping his three-and-a-half-year-old-daughter five years ago.
The judgement was delivered in the presence of Pascal Mazurier. His former wife Suja Jones, 42, had complained in June 2012 that Pasal Mazurier had raped their child. The sessions court judge said that there was not enough evidence to convict Pascal Mazurier in the case.
An first information report (FIR) was filed under Section 376 of the IPC at the High Grounds police station against Mazurier in June 2012, and Pascal who was the deputy head of chancery at the French Consulate in Bangalore at the time was arrested on June 15.
The arrest came four days after the complaint was filed by Suja Jones Mazurier (42), a native of Kerala. Suja had submitted a medical report from the Collaborative Child Response Unit (CCRU) of the Baptist Hospital to the police on June 14 confirming the child had been raped on June 13.
Suja and Pascal were married in France in 2001 and have three kids, the girl child is the second child. The family moved to Bengaluru in 2008 and was staying in an apartment at Vasanthnagar in Bengaluru central suburb.
