RAJNESH OSWAL
Mintu Kumar – Appellant
Versus
Union Territory of Jammu And Kashmir – Respondent
JUDGEMENT
1. The petitioner has filed the present petition for quashing the FIR No. 0125 of 2021, dated 21.04.2021 registered with Police Station, Samba for the commission of offence under section 376 IPC against the petitioner at the instance of the respondent No. 3.
2. It is stated that the FIR impugned does not disclose the commission of offence under section 376 IPC by the petitioner as the necessary ingredients of the offence are missing in the FIR. It is further averred that the allegations contained in the FIR unequivocally indicate the love-affair between the petitioner and the respondent No. 3 which commenced in the year 2015 and continued for a period of over six years as the respondent No. 3 has herself admitted that in the month of February, 2016, the petitioner induced the respondent No. 3 to enter into physical relation on the assurance that he would marry her but the respondent No. 3 refused. The further allegations levelled against the petitioner are that the respondent No. 3 accompanied the petitioner to Katra in the year 2017 and when they stayed in a hotel, the petitioner insisted the respondent No. 3 for physical relation by taking oath of Vaishno Devi that the pe
The promise to marry must be false from inception to constitute an offence under section 376 IPC; a consensual relationship over time does not amount to rape.
Consent under fear or misconception and the immediate relevance of false promise to marry in establishing the vitiation of consent.
The main legal point established in the judgment is the distinction between false promise and breach of promise in cases involving consent under Section 375 IPC, emphasizing the requirement for an ac....
A breach of promise to marry does not constitute a false promise under Section 376 IPC unless it is shown that the promise was made without intention to uphold it.
Consent in sexual relationships must be genuinely understood; presenting false pretenses may constitute a misconception but requires clear malicious intent to amount to rape.
Consent obtained under a false promise of marriage is vitiated and does not constitute valid consent under Section 90 of IPC.
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