JUDGMENT

Parthivjyoti Saikia, J. - Heard Mr. R. Sonar, learned counsel for the petitioner. Also heard Mr. J. Tsering, learned Public Prosecutor, Arunachal Pradesh, for the State respondent No. 1 and Mr. J. Techi, learned counsel for the private respondent No. 2.

2. By filing this petition under Section 482 of the Cr.P.C., the petitioner has prayed for quashing of the F.I.R. dated 18.02.2019, pertaining to Itanagar Women P.S. Case No. 24/2019, registered under Sections 376/417 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. The brief facts of the case can be put in nutshell as follows.

4. The petitioner, herein, is now pursuing his Post Graduate studies in Medicine. While he was studying in Class-10, he developed relationship with a girl of his class and thereafter had physical relationship with her. Their physical relationship continued for several subsequent years.

5. Now, the aforesaid girl has lodged an F.I.R. on 18.02.2019 before the Police stating that in the month of March 2007, the petitioner had forcibly committed sexual intercourse with her at mid night in a house of her relative located at Yazali. Thereafter, one day while she was staying in the rented house of her classmate, the petitioner