Maybe we are old-fashioned: Supreme Court questions sex before marriage
India Today
The Supreme Court emphasised caution in pre-marital relationships while hearing a bail plea in a case involving alleged rape on false promise of marriage.
The Supreme Court on Monday made pointed oral observations on pre-marital relationships while hearing a bail plea in an alleged rape on false promise of marriage case, saying, “Before marriage, a boy and a girl are strangers,” and urging “circumspection” before entering physical relationships.
A Bench of Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan was considering the plea of a man accused of luring a 30-year-old woman into a physical relationship on the assurance that he would marry her, despite being already married and later marrying another woman.
The Court’s remarks, reported by Live Law, came during arguments on the bail application.
Justice Nagarathna observed in court, “Maybe we are old fashioned but before marriage a boy and a girl are strangers. Whatever may be the thick and thin of their relationship. We fail to understand how they can be indulging in physical relationship before marriage. Maybe we are old fashioned You must be very careful, nobody should believe anybody before marriage.”
The prosecution case is that the complainant met the petitioner on a matrimonial website in 2022. It is alleged that he established physical relations with her on multiple occasions in Delhi and later in Dubai, promising marriage.
According to the complainant, she travelled to Dubai at his insistence, where he again allegedly established physical relations on the pretext of marriage. She has claimed that he recorded intimate videos without her consent and threatened to circulate them if she resisted.
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