ORDER

The petitioner herein is the sole accused in Crime no.703/2018 of Koipuram Police Station, Pathanamthitta. The offences alleged are under Sections 366 and 376 of the Penal Code and Section 66E of the Information Technology Act . The petitioner seeks quashment of the entire proceedings in the above Crime, on the strength of the settlement arrived at by and between the parties.

2. The prosecution case leveled against the petitioner is that, the petitioner committed rape on the defacto complainant/victim by extending a false promise of marriage. At the time of the alleged incident, the petitioner was a 23 year old Bsc.MLT graduate, employed as a lab technician in a private hospital at Malappuram. The petitioner took the victim to Aranmula Sub Registrar office and induced her to sign several documents for the purpose of solemnizing a registered marriage. Thereafter, the petitioner committed rape on the defacto complainant from the month of April, 2016 till 16^th June, 2018 at various places, including the residential house of the petitioner, various resorts and home stays near K.S.R.T.C bus station, Alappuzha. The prosecution would further allege that the petitioner took the victi