Noting how the incident may haunt the victim, the apex court said every visit to any temple may hark back to the unfortunate and barbaric action to which she was subjected to.
Updated Mar 02, 2021 · 02:09 pm File photo of the Supreme Court of India. | Sajjad Hussain/AFP
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the arrest of a man accused of rape by his former live-in partner,
Live Law reported. The woman alleged that the man, who promised to marry her, had been brutally abusive.
The bench comprising Chief Justice of India SA Bobde and Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian asked: “When two people are living as husband and wife, however brutal the husband is, can the act of sexual intercourse between them be called rape?”
The woman alleged that the man fraudulently obtained her consent for sexual relations after she refused to be intimate with him until marriage, according to