Allahabad High Court fines woman Rs 10,000 for filing false rape case against husband
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A woman from Prayagraj was fined Rs 10,000 after she filed a false complaint against her husband. The court said that the fine was imposed for misusing the judicial and legal systems and wasting their valuable time.
The Allahabad High Court fined a woman Rs 10,000 after she registered a fake FIR against her husband. The Court said that the valuable time of legal and judicial systems cannot be misused like this on false claims, since actual cases are pushed back because of it.
The case is from Prayagraj where a woman had filed a false FIR against her husband, Muhammad Salman, alleging rape before marriage, which Salman had challenged in court.
Considering his petition and investigating the case further, the court ordered the FIR against him to be quashed and imposed a fine on the woman. The order was pronounced by a bench of Justice Anjani Kumar Mishra and Justice Deepak Verma.
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The woman had alleged that the man had a physical relationship with her on the pretext of marriage. At first, he had refused but later, he agreed and the couple got married; after which, the woman reached out to the woman investigating officer and filed an application.
In her defense, she said that some people had been creating differences between the couple and it was under that influence that she had filed the FIR. She now asked the FIR to be cancelled.
The court said that in her application, the woman had clearly stated that there was no physical relationship between Salman and her and that she only loved him. Even in her complaint, she had agreed to that point. Due to this, the court held that the allegations of rape made by her were false and baseless. The court also added that perhaps the woman had filed the false FIR to pressurise the marriage.
