The Supreme Court has quashed criminal proceedings against six individuals accused of abetting a woman’s suicide after her lover refused to marry her. A Bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran ruled that a refusal to marry after a consensual relationship does not automatically constitute abetment to suicide.
A Thane sessions court acquitted a 33-year-old man accused of rape and cheating, observing that the two-year relationship with the complainant was consensual from the beginning and that the prosecution failed to prove fraudulent intent or charges beyond reasonable doubt
A bench of Justice Rakesh Mohan Pandey passed the verdict on the petition filed by the accused Palash Chandel, who had sought to quash the chargesheet and subsequent criminal proceedings in the case, the petitioner's lawyer Hari Agrawal said
