False Rape Case Filed By Ex-Girlfriend After 7-Year Consensual Relationship Over Refusal To Marry: Jharkhand High Court Quashes Case Against Man
The Jharkhand High Court quashed rape proceedings against a man after noting that the relationship between the two adults had continued consensually for more than seven years. The Court found no specific allegation that the man had no intention of marrying the woman when the promise was initially made. It held that a subsequent refusal or failure to marry cannot, by itself, convert a long consensual relationship into rape on a false promise of marriage.
