Married Woman Wilfully Cohabitating With Another Man Can’t Prosecute Him For Rape Under False Promise Of Marriage

Case: The State of Telangana versus Dasari Murali

Coram: Justice K. Surender

Case No.: Criminal Appeal No.77 OF 2020

Court Observation: “When there is a subsisting marriage, the question of respondent/accused marrying P.W.1 would not arise for the reason of such marriage being an offence punishable for bigamy and invalid…The physical relation amongst P.W.1 and the respondent/accused being one of consent, the question of rape does not arise.”

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Keywords

Married Woman Wilfully Cohabitating, False Promise Of Marriage