New Delhi/IBNS, July 17 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday came down heavily upon a woman who appealed for the cancellation of an anticipatory bail granted to a man whom she accused of rape on the promise of marriage, media reports said.

The top court upheld the anticipatory bail which was granted to the man.

A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh told the woman that she too had committed an offence by having a physical relationship with a man outside her marriage and warned her of prosecution.

The woman and the man started having an affair in 2016 after they met over social media.

The woman alleged that she had divorced her husband under pressure from the man. But after divorce, the man refused to marry her.

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