Court acquits man, spares woman for filing false rape case

A woman, found guilty of lodging a false rape case against a man with whom she later on tied the knot, has been spared of perjury proceedings by a Delhi court which hoped that as they were legally married they would start living happily without any bitterness.
Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat, while sparing the woman from prosecution, observed that the present case was "another classic illustration of the misuse of rape laws."
"The prosecutrix (woman) deserves to be prosecuted for having set the police machinery in motion on false information and for giving false evidence before this court but I refrain from doing so for the reason that prosecutrix and accused are legally married couple and in the hope that they would forget their bitterness....And would start living together as husband and wife peacefully," the judge said.

While acquitting the Rajasthan-based man, a government servant, of the charges under sections 376 (rape) and 328 (administering stupefying substance) of IPC, the court said that every evidence leads to a "irresistible conclusion that there is no truth in the prosecution case".
"The prosecutrix had lodged a false complaint against the accused probably for the reason that she did not want to wait any further for marriage with the accused knowing fully well that he was not able to marry her before the marriage of his two grown up sisters," the court noted.
It said that the woman had used the police machinery to create pressure upon the accused to marry her at the earliest.

Taking into account the photographs and certificate of marriage of the accused with the woman, the court said these leads credence to the fact that he never intended to cheat or deceive her and has fulfilled his promise.
According to the prosecution, the man, a railway ticket collector, had raped the woman on October 15, 2013 by offering some stupefying substance to her. Later on, he repeatedly raped her on the pretext of marriage.