India, Oct. 7 -- The Delhi High Court has held that a woman's friendly relationship with the accused or her voluntary visit to his room cannot be construed as consent or serve as justification for sexual assault.
A bench of justice Amit Mahajan delivered the ruling on September 15 while hearing a plea filed by a journalist and PhD student at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), who had sought to set aside adverse observations made by a trial court in January while granting bail to the man accused of raping her.
The proceedings stemmed from an FIR registered under Section 64 (rape) of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS), in which the woman alleged that the accused, a friend, had invited her to his hostel on two occasions, where he sexually as...
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