New Delhi, Feb. 16 -- In a significant development, the Supreme Court on Monday made an oral remark that a boy and a girl are strangers before marriage and hence there should be circumspection before indulging in a pre-marital physical relationship, reported LiveLaw.

The top court's remarks came in a case involving the bail plea of a man accused of rape on the false pretext of marriage.

A bench of Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan was hearing the case.

The man allegedly lured the complainant by assuring her that he would marry her, even though he was already married and later married another woman, said the LiveLaw report.

The woman, aged about 30 years, met the man on a matrimonial platform in 2022. He allegedly establis...