A Delhi court has acquitted a man of the charge of raping and deceitfully marrying a woman he met through a matrimonial website after she failed to support the prosecution case. It alleged that the man forced the woman, who had left her job in Dubai and returned to India to marry the accused, for unnatural sex at a hotel here. The court, however, noted that her testimony revealed that they neither had any sexual relation before or after the marriage nor did she live with the accused. "She has stated that she has settled the matter and she does not want any action against the accused," it said. An FIR was lodged against the accused for the offences under sections 376 (rape), 377 (unnatural sex) and 493 (cohabitation by a man deceitfully inducing a belief of lawful marriage) of the IPC.

Source: dna November 05, 2017 06:22 UTC