Rape Conviction Quashed over False Promise of Marriage; Court Facilitates Marriage Acting on ‘Sixth Sense’: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of India has exercised its extraordinary constitutional powers to quash a conviction for rape based on a false promise of marriage, after the accused and the prosecutrix married each other during the pendency of the appeal. The Court held that this was a rare case where complete justice warranted intervention under Article 142 of the Constitution of India. The judgment was delivered by a Bench comprising Justice…