The court, while rejecting the youth's plea, held that the facts narrated by the girl in her complaint alleging he harassed her, were true and lacked mens rea (criminal intent) to defame him.
The girl had earlier lodged a complaint against the youth alleging he harassed her by sending inappropriate emails and texts and threatened her if she did not respond to him or meet him.
"On reading entire complaint (of the girl), there is no defamatory words and statement against him and the entire complaint is true narration of the incident which has actually occurred between two individuals.
"There is no mens rea which is essential requirement for invoking Section 499 (defamation) of IPC," Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ankur Jain said while dismissing the counter-complaint of the youth, son of an ex-army officer.
In his plea filed in 2014, the youth had contended that he had met the girl during internship at the RBI in 2011 and became friends. He used to help her in improving her career.
However, later the girl began to avoid him and then started harassing, defaming and threatening him through the police, just days before his UPSC exam due to which he could not study, he claimed.
"Since the accused (girl) knew that the youth aspires to join Public Service to serve his nation, this episode of multiple false police complaints against his name has compromised his prospective career as a civil servant," the youth had contended.
He also alleged that the girl's plan to harass him just before his important entrance exams, hindered not only his performance to achieve success but also has great economic ramification, since he had quit his high paying job to prepare for Civil Services exam.
-Source PTI