Physical relationship with minor not rape if she is wife: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court said this while upholding a trial court's judgement which declared a man not guilty of raping his 15-year-old wife. Delhi High Court. NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has refused to entertain the State’s appeal against a man’s acquittal in a case of raping his 15-year-old wife, saying his physical relationship with her cannot be termed as rape. The high court upheld a trial court’s judgement which had declared the Muslim man not guilty of raping his second wife, saying he has been rightly acquitted. “The additional sessions judge had rightly observed that in view of the testimony of the child that she got married to the respondent (man) in the month of December 2014 and only thereafter did they have a physical relationship, no offence under Section 6 read with Section 5(1) of POCSO Act was made out and the respondent was rightly acquitted,” a bench of Justices Suresh Kumar Kait and Neena Bansal Krishna said. The high court said there was no ground for grant of...