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Delhi High Court: <\/strong>Vibhu Bhakru, J. while disposing of the petition upheld the decision of the trial court on finding no infirmity in its decision.<\/p>\n

The present petitioner sought leave to appeal against the Judgment passed by Additional Sessions Judge.<\/p>\n

Background<\/strong><\/p>\n

FIR was lodged pursuant to a complaint filed by Ms \u2018P\u2019 and the proceedings for the same commenced under Section 376, Penal Code, 1860. Ms \u2018P\u2019 stated that she had developed a friendship with the accused in the year 2013 and over a span of two years the same transformed into a love affair. She had been meeting the accused regularly and he had promised to marry her.<\/p>\n

On one occasion, the accused had invited Ms \u2018P\u2019 to his house to meet his mother and later, the respondent bolted the door and raped her despite her resistance. However, he had also promised to marry her and had asked her not to disclose the said incident. Further, the allegations placed by Ms \u2018P\u2019 were that the respondent had taken her to a hotel and had thereafter, raped her. Although he had promised to marry her, he had resiled from his promise.<\/p>\n

After the above incidents, Ms \u2018P\u2019 approached the police statement and got her statement recorded, though she declined to get an internal medical examination.<\/p>\n

Court\u2019s Observation and Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fact that the respondent established a physical relationship cannot be disputed. Ms \u2018P\u2019 checked into the hotel with the respondent and checked out from the same next morning, clearly shows that they both had booked the hotel for physical intimacy.<\/p>\n

Trial Court rightly observed that the only question to be considered was whether Ms P had consented for the physical relationship under a false promise of marriage. <\/em><\/p>\n

High Court noted that accused had evinced his intention to marry Ms \u2018P\u2019 more than two years before the alleged incident of the accused establishing a physical relationship with her. Further, the Court stated that, Ms P\u2019s testimony that she had objected to the accused touching her obscenely but had yielded on him promising marriage, is difficult to accept.<\/p>\n

The only reservation of the High Court to the conclusion of trial court was that the implicit assumption that the accused was not on trial for not marrying Ms P. The accused was not trial for not marrying Ms P, but on an allegation of committing the offence of rape.<\/p>\n

Another significant noting of the High Court was that,<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is important to bear in mind that two consenting adults establishing a physical relationship, is not crime. Jilting a lover, however abhorrent that it may seem to some, is also not an offence punishable under the Penal Code, 1860.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prosecutrix in the present case claims that her consent was not voluntary but was obtained by inducing her on the pretext of a promise to marry. Plainly, this is not established in this case. Prosceutrix had three months after the first alleged incident of rape, voluntarily checked into a hotel with the accused. Clearly, this was a voluntary act; there is no merit in the contention that this act was induced by a promise of marriage.<\/p>\n

Additionally, in view of the above, the Court also added that,<\/p>\n

Inducement to have a physical relationship by promising marriage must have a clear nexus with the moment promise of marriage cannot be held out as an inducement for engaging in sex over a protracted and indefinite period of time.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the present case, prosecutrix appears to have used the allegation of inducement of a physical relationship on the promise of marriage, to not only justify her physical relationship with the accused in the past, but also her conduct after the FIR was filed. In her testimony, she had explained that she had done so because the accused had contacted her and again reiterated his promise to get married to her.<\/p>\n

Thus the petition in the above terms is accordingly dismissed. [State v. Sandeep, 2019 SCC OnLine Del 10332<\/b><\/a>, decided on 25-09-2019]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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