Delhi court says man can sue if rape charge is proved wrong

• A Delhi court has said that a man who was acquitted of a rape under false promise of marriage case could sue his accuser for damages on account of humiliation and trauma he suffered due to her allegations.

• The courts observations came while acquitting a resident of Mukherjee Nagar in New Delhi of the charge of repeatedly raping and criminally intimidating a woman who was working in his organisation on the false promise of marriage.

• Former additional solicitor general Indira Jaising, however, pointed out that a rape survivor turning hostile and thus getting an acquittal on that basis cannot automatically be presumed to be an honourable acquittal.

• The woman lodged an FIR at Hari Nagar police station alleging that in February 2013, the man gave her a cold drink laced with sedatives and thereafter, raped her.

• She alleged that the man continued to rape her at several places from February to August 2013, on the false promise to marry her and threatened to make her obscene videos public.

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