A Sham Marriage Leading To An Alleged Rape Case, Details Inside

A business tycoon's son is said to have engaged in a sham marriage and to have involved himself in an alleged rape case as per Live Law reports. The Delhi Police was asked to register an FIR against the accused for his crime. However, the Delhi High Court stayed the order for the FIR to be registered.

The matter has been given a hearing date of 29 May by Justice Anup Jairam Bhambani. After a former hearing by an Additional Sessions Court, the court directed the Delhi Police to lodge an FIR against the accused Vir Singh. The court held that garlanding each other and putting vermillion on the female's head amounted to marriage.

The Case Built Around The Sham Marriage

The petitioner coveted that she married the accused under a 'sham ceremony' post in which sexual relations were established.

The petitioner held that on her part she only entered into a sexual relationship with the accused because she believed that they were lawfully married. She stated that the accused took advantage of the situation and raped her.

Allegedly the marriage ceremony between the petitioner and the accused took place in 2018 in Taiwan by the arrangement of both families. Purportedly the couple is believed to have shared an offspring.

The petitioner blamed the accused for observing her without her consent with baby monitors and CCTVs and also restricting her movements.

The petitioner sought to charge the accused with sections 341, 342, 344, 354C, 354D, 420, 506, and 120B of IPC section 81 of Juvenile Justice in the FIR.

The courts refused to let the case slide by as it amounted to an affront to a woman's dignity. Letting something like this slide last would encourage med to take sexual advantages under the pretext of sham marriages. The courts, therefore, conveyed that investigations be made to affirm or negate the nature of crimes the accused was blamed for.

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