India, Feb. 22 -- The Madhya Pradesh high court has ruled that a married woman could not claim that her consent for physical relations with another man was taken on the pretext of a false promise of marriage, reported Bar and Bench.

Justice Maninder S Bhatti on February 10 dismissed a rape case against a man based on a complaint filed by a married woman, who had physical relations with him. The woman claimed that the man had promised he would divorce his wife and marry her, based on which he had established a sexual relationship with her.

Justice Bhatti said when the complainant was a married woman, consent for a physical relationship on the pretext of a false promise was not the same as one established under a "misconception" of facts....