{"id":281712,"date":"2023-01-16T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T06:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=281712"},"modified":"2023-01-20T12:57:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T07:27:31","slug":"andhra-hc-allows-criminal-petition-for-compromising-offence-under-section-376-rape-legal-news-legal-research-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2023\/01\/16\/andhra-hc-allows-criminal-petition-for-compromising-offence-under-section-376-rape-legal-news-legal-research-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Offence of Rape can be permitted to be compounded to promote family life of complainant and accused; Andhra Pradesh High Court quashes complaint for being made in fit of anger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Andhra Pradesh High Court<\/span>: The Single Judge bench of R. Raghunandan Rao, J., held that the offence under Section 376 can be permitted to be compounded under special circumstances, including a situation where closure of such a case would promote family life of the complainant and the accused.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">In the matter at hand, the complainant stated that she was in a relationship with the accused and was upset when the accused sought to marry another girl despite their relationship. On account of frustration, filed a complaint under Sections <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001561701\">376<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001561754\">417<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002726960\">Penal Code, 1860<\/a> (\u2018IPC&#8217;) and Sections <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001551147\">3(v)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001551147\">3(1)(r)<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002828505\">Scheduled Castes &amp; Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989<\/a>. The complainant moved the Court to withdraw the complaint and compromise the matter as the issues had been settled amicably between them and accordingly decided to live their respective lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court referred <i>Satish K.<\/i> v. <i>State of Karnataka<\/i> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/S4sd4LbK\">(2022) SCC OnLine Kar 899<\/a><\/span> where Kerala High Court held that an offence under Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001561701\">376<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002726960\">IPC<\/a> can be permitted to be compounded, in specific circumstances, including a situation where closure of such case would promote the family life of the parties. .<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court also referred<i> K. Dhandapani<\/i> v. <i>State by the Inspector of Police<\/i> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/f043E0s1\">(2022) SCC OnLine SC 1056<\/a><\/span>, where the Court permitted the compounding of an offence under Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001561701\">376<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002726960\">IPC<\/a> as well as offence under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002825996\">Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court, therefore, allowed the criminal petition and permitted compromise between the accused and victim.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 18pt; margin-bottom: 3%;\">[<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #632423;\">Gokada Suresh v. State of Andhra Pradesh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/ry40zp2b\">2023 SCC OnLine AP 57<\/a>, decided on 04.01.2023<\/span>]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Advocates who appeared in this case :<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 18pt;\">Arrabolu Sai Naveen, Advocate, for the Petitioner;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 18pt;\">Additional Public Prosecutor , SR Sanku and Kavita Murali Krishna, Advocates, for the Respondents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">Woman files petition for compromising an offence under section 376 of IPC, stating that she made the complaint in anger instead of actually being aggrieved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67011,"featured_media":279759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[2553,34840,9091,54488,30286],"class_list":["post-281712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-Andhra_Pradesh_High_Court","tag-compounding","tag-criminal-proceedings","tag-rape-compromise","tag-section-376"],"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>Offence of Rape can be permitted to be compounded to promote family life of complainant and accused; Andhra Pradesh High Court quashes complaint for being made in fit of anger | SCC Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Single Judge bench of R. 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