‘Woman herself invited bother’: Allahabad HC grants bail to rape accused | India News

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NEW DELHI: The Allahabad excessive courtroom has granted bail to a rape accused because the complainant “herself invited trouble” by agreeing to go to his home after consuming alcohol with associates.
The order, handed by justice Sanjay Kumar Singh, famous that being an MA pupil, the girl was “competent enough to understand the morality and significance of her act.”
“This court is of the view that even if the allegation of the victim is accepted as true, then also it can be concluded she herself invited trouble and was also responsible for the same. Similar stand has been taken by the victim in her statement. In her medical examination, the doctor did not give any opinion about the sexual assault,” the order learn, in accordance to information company PTI.
“Considering the facts and circumstances of the case as well as keeping in view the nature of the offence, evidence, complicity of the accused and submissions of the learned counsel for the parties, I am of the view that the applicant has made out a fit case for bail,” it acknowledged.
Earlier, the accused submitted it was an “admitted case” by the girl that she was an grownup and resided in a PG hostel. She, of her personal volition, went along with her associates to a restaurant, the place they consumed alcohol. Due to this, she grew to become “very intoxicated.”
The counsel for the accused additional argued the girl and her associates stayed within the bar until 3 am. As she wanted assist, she determined to go to the person’s home for relaxation.
Her allegation that the accused as a substitute took her to his relative’s flat and raped her twice is fake and towards the proof on file, the counsel advised the courtroom.
It was additionally argued that contemplating the info of the case as disclosed by the girl, it’s not a case of rape however is perhaps a case of consensual relationship between them.
This comes days after the Supreme Court, on March 26, stayed one other controversial Allahabad excessive courtroom order which acknowledged that grabbing a girl’s breasts and pulling the drawstrings of her pyjama “did not amount to attempted rape,” saying this mirrored “total insensitivity” and “inhuman approach.”
The observations had been made by justice Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra in a March 17 verdict.