Charges of rape, sexual harassment, sexual exploitation and others, after a consented relationship going kaput, have become a tool of tactical pressure building by many women, who force men into marriage. Last weekend, a BPO employee from NCR has alleged sexual exploitation for the last six months by a senior employee of a private company on the pretext of marriage.
Case:
- The BPO employee, was a married woman from Uttarakhand and had filed a divorce petition in a court
- The woman claimed that the accused, Balmukund Mishra, also married, had told her that he had also filed a divorce plea in an Amritsar court
- According to the police, the 27-year-old woman came in contact with Mishra, a native of Amritsar, a year ago through a marriage portal
- Mishra, who also works in Gurugram, befriended her after a series of interactions over phone and WhatsApp
- Subhash Bokan, PRO of the Gurugram police confirmed that they mutually decided to enter into a live-in relationship and rented a flat in the New Palam Vihar area
- They stayed together between February and July this year
- As per the victim’s claims, their relationship went sour and Mishra started ignoring her in August after she started pressing him for marriage
- Mishra quit the arrangement in the last week of August and left the house
- The PRO added, when the girl contacted him over phone, Mishra allegedly abused her and threatened of dire consequences if she called again
- The woman then filed the complaint at the Bajghera police station
- SHO Deepak Kumar said the complaint had been registered under relevant section of the Indian Penal Code
Our Take :
- An adult married woman, without any pressure, chooses to get into a live-in relationship with another married man
- After living-in for six months, the man opts to back out from the alliance; the reasons are unknown
- The man’s choice has to be clearly respected in this case, just the way a woman’s choice would have been respected if she decided not to marry the man after a consensual relationship
- It is highly unfair for a woman to use rape/sexual harassment as a ‘tool’ if the outcome of the live-in relationship did not result the way she desired
- If the choice of living together (without marriage) whilst their respective divorce petitions were on-going was chosen by both adult individuals, the range of outcomes of this relationship may not necessarily be the way either of them decides
- If you want to live-in together mutually, you must be ready to part together mutually if things don’t fall in place
- Women should not use the gender card to merely force a man to marry them
- In a reverse, a man has no choice to file any case on a woman, if she dumps him after days/months of a mutual relationship
Due to ever rising cases after a fallout off a consented affair, Supreme Court has recently clearly spelt out “what is rape on pretext of marriage”.
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http://voiceformenindia.com/in-the-law/rape-on-pretext-of-marriage-3/
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