SC clears man of rape charges after 27 yrs
India, Feb. 6 -- The Supreme Court has set aside the conviction of a man who underwent a 27-year-long legal ordeal for allegedly kidnapping and raping a woman - who is now his wife of 21 years and the mother of their four children - noting that continuing to uphold his conviction would cause greater injustice, given the peculiar circumstances of the case. A bench of justices BV Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma cited precedents in similar cases where convictions were set aside due to the subsequent marriage of the accused and the complainant. These judgments underscored that continuing to uphold the conviction would serve no real purpose except to disrupt the life of an already established family.P11...
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