The Jharkhand High Court has refused to discharge a man who allegedly obtained consent of the victim on the pretext of marriage but forcibly committed initial sexual intercourse with her.Justice.
Observing that genuine cases of such sexual offences are now an "exception", the Allahabad High Court last week said that since girls/women have the “upper hand” when it comes to the protection of.
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.
The Calcutta High Court recently set aside trial court s decision to convict under Section 417 of IPC a man accused of inducing a woman to have sexual relation with him on the promise to marry her.
Calcutta High Court acquitted a man of rape for a broken promise to marry, after finding that the woman had voluntarily entered the sexual relationship because she was in love and “not because he promised to marry her.”