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Naim Ahamed v. State (nct of Delhi)

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Reported as [2023] 1 S.C.R. 1061
Bench Ajay Rastogi and Bela M. Trivedi JJ.
Decided 30 January 2023

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons stated above, the impugned judgments and orders passed by the High Court and the Sessions Court are set a side, except the direction for the payment of compensation to the prosecutrix.

Judgment, page 18

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 – ss.375, 376 – Conviction u/s.376, when not justified – Plea of the respondents was that the prosec utrix gave her consent for sexual relationship under the misconception of fact, as the accused had given a false promise to marry h er but subsequently he did not marry, and therefore such c onsent was no consent in the eye of law and the case fell under the Clause- Secondly of s.375 – Held: In the present case, the prosecutr ix who herself was a married woman having three children, could not be said to have acted under the alleged false promise given by the appellant- accused

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