'Promise broken for marriage is not a false promise': Bombay HC aquits man of rape charges

The Bombay High Court has overturned an earlier decision of the trial court and acquitted a man accused of rape on the basis of a Supreme Court ruling which differentiates between a false promise and a breach of promise. The apex court established that if a promise to marry is deceitful from the outset, made with the intention to deceive the woman into consenting to sexual relations, then the consent is “tainted by a misconception of fact.”