Bengaluru:
The Karnataka Excessive Court docket has dominated that consensual relationships don’t grant licence for assault.
The case entails a serving Circle Inspector of Police who was accused by a social employee, additionally the spouse of a police constable, of assorted crimes together with assault and intimidation.
The connection between the complainant and the accused started in 2017 when she visited the Bhadravathi Rural police station. By Might 2021, the complainant lodged a criticism on the Ladies’s Police Station, alleging she was bodily and sexually harassed by the inspector.
The state of affairs escalated when the inspector allegedly threatened to hurt her youngsters if she didn’t withdraw her criticism, resulting in extra expenses underneath IPC sections 504 and 506 for insult with intent to impress breach of peace and legal intimidation respectively.
In November 2021, the inspector reportedly kidnapped the complainant, took her to a lodge the place he assaulted her, and left her at Sagar Bus cease early the following morning. She sought medical consideration for her accidents and filed one other criticism, accusing him of offenses underneath numerous IPC sections together with rape, kidnapping, wrongful confinement, try and homicide, and assault.
The accused contested these allegations, claiming the connection was consensual from the beginning and citing his acquittal in a associated cheque bounce case underneath the Negotiable Devices Act.
Justice M Nagaprasanna, whereas acknowledging the consensual nature of the connection, dismissed the cost of repeated rape underneath part 376(2)(n) however upheld different expenses associated to assault, intimidation, and try and homicide.
The court docket remarked on the “gross misogynist brutality” inflicted upon the complainant, permitting the trial to proceed on these counts.
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