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Rape Convict, Victim Agree To Marry; Supreme Court Coaxes Flowery Proposal

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Last Updated:May 15, 2025, 20:46 IST

A Bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma asked some the parties to speech flowers successful the courtroom aft the accused projected to the survivor.

Supreme Court | PTI Image/File

Supreme Court | PTI Image/File

In an antithetic country successful the Supreme Court connected Thursday, a antheral convicted of rape and sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment, and the subsister expressed a willingness to wed each different and exchanged floral greeting with each other.

A Bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma asked some the parties to speech flowers successful the courtroom aft the accused projected to the subsister amid applause from those contiguous successful the room.

“We met the parties in-chamber successful the luncheon session. The parties person some unequivocally expressed their tendency to wed each other," the Court said earlier urging the antheral to suggest to the pistillate arsenic quoted by Bar and Bench.

The seat suspended the condemnation of the antheral fixed by the Madras High Court past twelvemonth saying that the antheral and pistillate had “unequivocally" decided to get married.

“The details of the matrimony shall beryllium worked retired by the respective parents. We anticipation that the matrimony takes spot arsenic expeditiously arsenic possible. In specified circumstances, we suspend the condemnation and merchandise the petitioner," the seat said successful its order.

The judges further said the antheral shall instrumentality to jailhouse but beryllium produced earlier the Sessions Court arsenic aboriginal arsenic possible. “The acrophobic Sessions Court shall merchandise him connected bail, taxable to specified conditions arsenic it whitethorn deem due to impose," their bid said.

What’s The Case?

The lawsuit against the accused stems from a 2021 FIR erstwhile the pistillate accused the antheral of repeatedly raping her since 2016 nether the mendacious pretence of committedness of marriage.

According to the FIR, the antheral met the pistillate done Facebook, arsenic she was friends with his sister. They developed a narration and had carnal relations connected aggregate occasions. It was alleged that each time, helium assured her that helium would wed her.

However, erstwhile the pistillate yet asked her spouse to wed her, helium refused, citing his mother’s disapproval of the relationship.

In September 2024, a proceedings tribunal convicted the petitioner nether Sections 376(2)(n) (rape) and 417 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code. He was sentenced to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for repeated rape.

The accused approached the Madras High Court but failed to get immoderate relief, prompting him to sound connected the doors of the Supreme Court.

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