{"id":268359,"date":"2022-06-14T15:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T09:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=268359"},"modified":"2022-06-22T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T11:28:00","slug":"mp-hc-%e2%94%82-court-finds-rape-charges-vexatious-and-frivolous-fir-quashed-after-delay-of-18-years-to-file-a-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/06\/14\/mp-hc-%e2%94%82-court-finds-rape-charges-vexatious-and-frivolous-fir-quashed-after-delay-of-18-years-to-file-a-case\/","title":{"rendered":"MP HC \u2502 Court finds rape charges &#8220;vexatious and frivolous &#8220;; FIR quashed after delay of 18 years to file a case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Madhya Pradesh High Court:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Anand Pathak, J. allowed a petition which was preferred under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/jA781T8t\">Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure<\/a> seeking quashment of FIR registered against the petitioner and consequential\u00a0 criminal proceedings for offence under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/hF8R4TLX\">Sections 376, 506 of Penal Code, 1860<\/a>.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">An FIR was registered by respondent 2\/complainant\/prosecutrix on 04-12-2019 who happened to be a lady aged 41 years against the petitioner, a male aged 55 years with the allegations that her husband Mukesh died in 1999 leaving two children and the petitioner induced her to marry so that he can maintain her children born out of first wedlock of prosecutrix and with that inducement he brought her to Bajranggarh and without her consent committed rape in the month of May, 2001 with her as a result whereof she became pregnant and out of such relation, one child was born. Thereafter petitioner used to have physical relationship with her continuously and when after four years she came back to Gwalior then also petitioner used to call her for intermittent payments towards her maintenance amount and used to commit rape and threatened her with dire consequences.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">After investigation, charge-sheet was filed against the petitioner and trial was under consideration. Counsel for the petitioner submitted that from the very contents of FIR, improbable event has been conceptualized by prosecutrix and case suffered from vexatious litigation just to harass petitioner. He pointed out that it is highly improbable that she remained silent for such long years and after 18 years she raised her voice. He also pointed out that petitioner did not part his whole property in favour of prosecutrix, then these false allegations have been levelled.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Court was of the opinion that when petitioner and prosecutrix lived together as a couple for 18 long years then after such lapse of time any allegation levelled by prosecutrix pales into oblivion because they are primarily motivated to exert pressure. Not only this, perusal of application under Section 125 of Cr.P.C. filed at the instance of respondent 2 further revealed that on the one hand she levelled the allegations that they lived in live-in relationship but now she made an application that they lived as married couple. Such divergent stand can only be availed of in case of misrepresentation of facts.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Court after reiterating the different exigencies laid down under which interference under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. can be made in the case of <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">State of Haryana v. Bhajan Lal<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/PrBF91ZF\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1992 Supp (1) SCC 335<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> found that no offence is made out and perusal of charge-sheet and different statements further substantiates the arguments of petitioner. Besides that, it appears to be vexatious and frivolous litigation just to exert pressure over petitioner to extract money or an attempt made by prosecutrix to convert domestic dispute into criminal allegations. <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It would be miscarriage of justice if such false allegations are allowed to sustain and petitioner is unnecessarily dragged into litigation to defend himself.<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The petition was allowed and the FIR was quashed.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>[Manohar Silawat v. State of Madhya Pradesh,<\/strong><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/j25o7jt5\"><b>2022 SCC OnLine MP 1288<\/b><\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>, order dated 09-06-2022]<\/strong><\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">For Petitioner: Mr Amit Lahoti\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">For Respondent: Mr Ravi Ballabh Tripathi<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\" data-contrast=\"auto\">*Suchita Shukla, Editorial Assistant has reported this brief. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madhya Pradesh High Court: Anand Pathak, J. allowed a petition which was preferred under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure seeking <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67011,"featured_media":268364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[3239,3066,39938,2572],"class_list":["post-268359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-consent","tag-delay","tag-frivolous-litigation","tag-Rape"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MP HC \u2502 Court finds rape charges &quot;vexatious and frivolous &quot;; 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