A Delhi court has ordered an FIR against a woman and her father for falsely accusing her husband and his family of gangrape and dowry harassment. The court strongly condemned the misuse of serious criminal laws.
The Supreme Court ruled that a married woman cannot accuse a man of rape based on a false promise of marriage, calling the relationship consensual and the promise legally unenforceable.
Arnab Ganguly, a 43-year-old businessman, wrote to the PMO after being falsely accused of rape by a woman he was in a relationship with. He spent eight months in jail and took six years to prove his innocence.
The Delhi High Court quashed a rape FIR filed in 2021, saying the case was an example of misuse of Section 376 IPC. The court found that the relationship was consensual and not based on a false promise of marriage.
