On considering the submissions by both parties, the Court began by clarifying that this was not a case of rape on the pretext of marriage, but one where the prosecutrix was raped after the applicant spiked her cold drink and took advantage of her.
The Court also noted that the case diary and the various documents filed by the accused revealed that the prosecutrix and the accused were in a live-in-relationship for quite some time and during this time, the prosecutrix also got pregnant for more than a couple of times and got it terminated, allegedly under the pressure of the present applicant.
Subsequently, things got sore between them and to the disappointment of the applicant, the prosecutrix got engaged to some other person, the Court noted.
Source: Barandbench
