Courtroom acquits Panchkula resident in rape case

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Mar 18, 2025 10:30 AM IST

Sumit Kumar, a Pinjore resident, was acquitted of the fees of rape beneath Part 376 (2) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC)

A neighborhood court docket on Monday acquitted a Panchkula resident accused in a 2021 rape case because of lack of proof and held that it’s crystal clear that the case can’t be made out in opposition to him.

“It cannot be concluded that the prosecutrix engaged in a sexual relationship with the accused solely on account of any assurance of marriage from the accused. The relationship between the parties was cordial and also consensual in nature,” stated the court docket. (HT Photograph)

Sumit Kumar, a Pinjore resident, was acquitted of the fees of rape beneath Part 376 (2) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

As per the prosecution, the IT Park police station had registered a case in opposition to Kumar on the grievance of a 35-year-old girl in 2021. In response to the grievance, she had met the accused in 2010. They later bought right into a bodily relationship in August 2013, which continued until 2021. The girl, nevertheless, lodged the grievance after Kumar had refused to marry her. Kumar was arrested in July 2021 and expenses have been framed in opposition to him in November 2021.

“It cannot be concluded that the prosecutrix engaged in a sexual relationship with the accused solely on account of any assurance of marriage from the accused. The relationship between the parties was cordial and also consensual in nature,” stated the court docket.

The court docket added that what was a consensual relationship between the events through the preliminary levels can’t be given a color of criminality when the stated relationship doesn’t fructify right into a conjugal relationship. Now each the events are married to another person and have moved on of their respective lives, noticed the court docket.

The court docket additionally noticed that it is vitally tough to imagine that the prosecutrix, who’s aged about 35 years, in any other case a mature particular person, was unable to find the ‘deceitful’ behaviour of the accused who continued to have sexual relationship along with her for such a protracted interval with the promise of marriage. Any such mendacious act of the accused would have been uncovered sooner with out having to attend for such a very long time, it said.

“The inference one can drawn under the circumstances is that there was no such false promise made to the prosecutrix by the accused of marriage by continuing to have physical relationship so as to bring this act within the province of Section 376 IPC and therefore, there was no vitiation of consent under misconception of fact,” stated the court docket.