The Nagpur bench of the Bombay Excessive Courtroom on Tuesday upheld the conviction of a person for raping his mother-in-law, reported PTI.
A single bench of Justice G A Sanap famous that it was a shameful act and the sufferer was like a mom to him.
The convict had challenged a 2022 judgment of a classes courtroom convicting and sentencing him to 14 years in jail for the rape of his 55-year-old mother-in-law in December 2018.
The girl had alleged that her son-in-law and daughter have been separated and that her two grandchildren used to reside with their father.
On the day of the alleged incident, the accused visited the girl, the place he quarrelled along with her and requested her to assist reunite her daughter with him. On the accused’s compulsion, the sufferer went with him to his home. Nonetheless, she claims that man received drunk and raped the girl 3 times, in line with PTI.
The girl then knowledgeable in regards to the incident to her daughter and who then lodged a police criticism.
Whereas approaching the excessive courtroom, the person in his enchantment claimed that he was implicated in a false rape case and that it was a consensual sexual relationship.
The excessive courtroom, nevertheless, refused to just accept this rivalry and mentioned the sufferer on the time of the incident was 55 years previous and asserted that she wouldn’t invite such a stigma on her character by levelling false allegations.
“Reporting of such a matter to the police invitations stigmatic penalties. If it was a consensual act, then she wouldn’t have in any respect reported the incident to the police. If it was a consensual act, then she wouldn’t have even disclosed the identical to her daughter,” the HC mentioned, in line with PTI.
The bench additionally mentioned that the girl would have by no means imagined that her son-in-law would commit such a deplorable act.
“It’s to be famous that the appellant (convict), who’s the son-in-law of the prosecutrix (complainant), has dedicated this shameful act together with his mother-in-law, who’s the age of his personal mom. The appellant defiled the womanhood of the prosecutrix,” it mentioned.
“The appellant took benefit of his relations with the prosecutrix. The prosecutrix wouldn’t have imagined within the wildest of desires that her son-in-law would commit such a deplorable act along with her,” it added.
