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Indian Penal Code

Samadhan Sitatram Manmothe v. State of Maharashtra 2025 INSC 1351 - Rape Cases -Promise Of Marriage

Read Judgment In LawLens Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 376 -Physical intimacy that occurred during the course of a functioning relationship cannot be retrospectively branded as instances of offence of rape merely because the relationship failed to culminate in marriage -Failed or broken relationships are given the colour of

Batlanki Keshav (Kesava) Kumar Anurag vs State Of Telangana 2025 INSC 790 - Rape Case Quashed

Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 - Section 482 - HC refused to quash criminal proceedings against accused - Allowing appeal, SC observed: Even assuming that the accused appellant retracted from his promise to marry the complainant, it cannot be said that he indulged in sexual intercourse with the de-facto complainant

Amol Bhagwan Nehul vs State Of Maharashtra 2025 INSC 782- S.376 IPC - Rape- False Promise To Marry

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 376- A consensual relationship turning sour or partners becoming distant cannot be a ground for invoking criminal machinery of the State. Such conduct not only burdens the Courts, but blots the identity of an individual accused of such a heinous offence. This Court has

Ravish Singh Rana vs State Of Uttarakhand 2025 INSC 635 - Rape - Long Drawn Live-in Relationships

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 375-376 - [BNS - Section 63-64] - If two able-minded adults reside together as a live-in couple for more than a couple of years and cohabit with each other, a presumption would arise that they voluntarily chose that kind of a relationship fully aware

Jaspal Singh Kaural vs State Of NCT Of Delhi 2025 INSC 457 - Rape - Promise To Marry - Framing Of Charges

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 375 - Mere fact that physical relations were established pursuant to a promise to marry will not amount to a rape in every case. An offence under Section 375 IPC could only be made out, if promise of marriage was made by the accused

Biswajyoti Chatterjee vs State Of West Bengal 2025 INSC 458 - Rape - Promise To Marry

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 376 - There is a growing tendency of resorting to initiation of criminal proceedings when relationships turn sour. Every consensual relationship, where a possibility of marriage may exist, cannot be given a colour of a false pretext to marry, in the event of a

Jothiragawan vs State 2025 INSC 386 - Rape On Promise To Marry - Quashing

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 376 - Rape case quashed - SC observed: There is no promise of marriage to coerce consent from the victim for sexual intercourse; as forthcoming from the statements made by the victim. The promise if any was after the first physical intercourse and even

Rajnish Singh @ Soni vs State Of U.P. 2025 INSC 308 - Rape On Promise To Marry

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 375- The accused is not liable for the offence of rape if the victim has wilfully agreed to maintain sexual relations (Para 35)- In a situation where the woman knowingly maintains the physical relationship for a prolonged period, it cannot be said with

Manish Yadav Vs State Of Uttar Pradesh 2025 INSC 151 - S 375 IPC - Rape on Promise To Marry

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 375 - Where a consensual physical relationship between two adults has turned sour due to certain intervening events, allowing the prosecution of accused would tantamount to sheer abuse of the process of law and nothing else.[Supreme Court quashed rape case against accused] -

Indian Penal Code

Prithivirajan vs State - S 376 IPC - Rape - Promise To Marry

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 375,376 - Only because physical relations were established based on a promise to marry, it will not amount to rape. For the offence of rape to be attracted, the following conditions need to be satisfied: first, the accused promised to marry the prosecutrix