Delhi High Court quashes 'fake' rape FIR against Gurgaon-based professional
A Gurgaon-based corporate professional was shocked to learn that a woman he'd met on a matrimonial site had slapped rape charges against him.
In Short
- The woman Amit Kumar (name changed) met said she was going through a divorce.
- She alleged that Kumar raped her on the false promise of marriage.
- She even threatened to harm her daughter if he revealed the incident.
After going through a painful divorce, 34-year-old Amit Kumar (name changed) decided to give marriage a second chance.
The Gurgaon-based corporate professional logged in a matrimonial site and met a woman, who was "going through divorce" as well and was a mother of an eightyear-old daughter.
Little he knew, that this woman could become his nightmare. Amit Kumar was shocked to know that the women slapped rape charges against him, when he had been meeting other women.
She had alleged that Kumar raped her on the false promise of marriage and even threatened to harm her daughter if he reveals the incident.
However, it did not take long for Amit to realise, that the woman was a habitual complainant and had accused her second husband on the same lines.
He moved the Delhi High Court to quash the FIR against him. While he has succeeded in doing so, Amit is still struggling to come to terms with the incident. He was sent in police custody for a day and had to live in Tihar for another day.
AMIT KUMAR'S COUNSEL SPEAKS TO MAIL TODAY
Speaking to MAIL TODAY, Kumar's counsel Parth Goswami said, "Ten months before filing the FIR against my client, this woman had filed an FIR against her husband named Naveen.
"She had met him through a matrimonial site and slapped rape charges on the false promise of marriage. She filed for divorce just after six days of marriage. She took `3 lakh as a settlement amount.
While we have got the FIR quashed against Amit, the incident has scarred him for life." Amit told the court that the woman had lodged a similar FIR against other persons and this was her modusoperandi, with an intention to extort money.
"The woman married twice with a subsisting marriage. The allegations that sexual acts with the petitioner were on a false promise of marriage are belied on the face of it," the court was told.
RAMPANT USE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES TO TRAP MEN, EXPERTS SAY
Legal experts and men rights' activist say there has been a rampant use of social networking sites to trap men and slap them with false charges to extort money.
Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj, social activist and filmmaker told MAIL TODAY, "There are many men who have reached out to me with cases filed on them barely few days after the marriage. A man has been fighting cases for the last three years.
His wife left him within one month of their marriage, saying she couldn't live with his mother. While pursuing cases against the man, she made profiles on several matrimonial websites claiming herself to be unmarried, to trap other men. "In-depth investigation of people's backgrounds is important before finalising alliance through online portals.
There are many frauds on these sites. Ministries are only concerned about duped women, but there are actually many men who have been cheated and slapped with fake cases and allegations."
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