Xxxx vs State Of Madhya Pradesh & Another 2024 INSC 181 :: [2024] 3 S.C.R. 309 – Rape By Promise To Marry – Case Quashed

Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 376 – Rape by giving promise to marry – Quashing the case against appellant, SC noted: It is not a case where the complainant was of an immature age who could not foresee her welfare and take right decision. She was a grown up lady about ten years elder to the appellant. She was matured and intelligent enough to understand the consequences of the moral and immoral acts for which she consented during subsistence of her earlier marriage. In fact, it was a case of betraying her husband. It is the admitted case of the prosecutrix that even after the appellant shifted to Maharashtra for his job, he used to come and stay with the family and they were living as husband and wife.

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