The Delhi High Court has suspended the sentence of cashiering and 10 years rigorous imprisonment handed out by a general court martial to an Air Force officer for allegedly raping a woman colleague after questioning the credibility and veracity of statements made by some of the witnesses and other evidence on record.

The High Court observed that knowledge of the prosecutrix, who was unconscious at the time of the incident, primarily comes from an alleged video confession recorded by a witness and accounts by other witnesses, one of whom was her roommate.

The reliability of these witnesses is disputed, inter alia, on the ground that one of the witnesses initially denied the video recording before the court of inquiry, but subsequently furnished it, and that the roommate, though present at

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