MUMBAI, Feb. 2, 2024 (TBINN)
A man resiling from his promise to marry a woman as his family did not agree to the relationship does not constitute the offence of rape, Bombay High Court’s Nagpur Bench held while discharging a 31-year-old man from a case registered against him for allegedly raping a woman under the pretext of marriage.
A single bench of Justice M.W. Chandwani, in an order dated January 30, said the man had merely breached his promise of marriage and had not given the woman the pretext of marriage to establish physical relations with her.
“There is a distinction between breach of a promise and not fulfilling a false promise,” the Court said.
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