High Court said that protection Section 376 (rape) is not available to a woman who was not legally entitled to marry the person with whom she was in sexual relationship with.
A married woman cannot claim to have been induced into a sexual relationship under the false pretext of marriage, the Delhi High Court said while quashing a rape case against a married ma by his live-in partner.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court quashed a rape case filed for having sexual relations on the pretext of marriage, reasoning that over a year's time is sufficient for the woman to realise if such a promise was genuine.
The law punishing rape under Section 376, IPC is being misused like a weapon by women these days when differences arise between a woman and her male partner, commented the Uttarakhand High Court recently.