A 43-year-old businessman wrote to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and the Ministry of Women and Child Development, protesting false rape charges filed against him by a woman who had promised to marry him.
In his petition, the man, Arnab Ganguly, claims that while men are often accused of rape for ending relationships, he was falsely accused for continuing one. According to him, the woman was only interested in a physical relationship, not marriage.
Arnab, who moved to Gurugram in 2015 after being divorced for eight years, had set up a call center where he met the woman. She worked as an HR executive in his company. Over time, they grew closer as she confided in him about her troubled marriage. Having gone through a divorce himself, Arnab offered her advice.
After she expressed her love for Arnab, he asked if she wanted to divorce her husband. He said, “At 42, I wasn’t interested in a casual relationship. We became intimate only after she assured me of marriage. I told her that if she was serious, we should move forward. She asked for time and promised a decision by January last year.”
However, Arnab soon realized the woman was avoiding marriage. He planned to meet her and her family in Delhi on March 6 of last year to discuss marriage, but just four days before his scheduled visit, the Delhi police arrested him at his Kolkata home on rape charges.
After spending eight months in Tihar Jail, Arnab decided to reach out to lawmakers to highlight the misuse of strict laws against innocent people.
In his petition to the PMO, he questioned, “If a woman promises marriage, gets physically involved, and later refuses to marry, as happened in my case, can a rape charge be filed against her?”
It took Arnab six years to prove his innocence.
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