Long-term live-in implies consent, refusal to marry not rape: Chhattisgarh High Court
The Chhattisgarh High Court upheld a trial court's acquittal of a man in a rape and unnatural sex case arising from a live-in relationship, holding
The Chhattisgarh High Court upheld a trial court's acquittal of a man in a rape and unnatural sex case arising from a live-in relationship, holding that a long-term live-in relationship gives rise to a presumption of consent and that a subsequent refusal to marry, by itself, does not amount to rape.
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