13/05/2026
Delhi Court grants bail in an “false promise to marry” r**e case.
Advocate Vineet Jindal appeared for the applicant/accused and argued that the complainant, aged about 36 years and a postgraduate, was fully aware of the nature and development of the relationship. He further submitted that there was never any promise of marriage, as the complainant herself had specifically stated in her statement before the learned Judicial Magistrate under Section 183 BNSS that there was no commitment of marriage between the applicant and the prosecutrix.
It was also argued that the FIR was lodged after a delay of five months as an afterthought, with the motive to extort the applicant after he had started his married life.
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