Rape case: Supreme Court seeks State Governmen response

The Supreme Court has sought the response of Karnataka government and an MBBS student after taking note of a plea of a woman seeking revival of a rape case filed by her against him that was quashed following a settlement under which he had agreed to marry her.

A bench issued notices to the state government and the accused and directed them to file their replies to the petition in a month. The petition, filed by the victim, claimed the accused tricked her into believing that he would marry her, while practicing deceit in the form of creating circumstances, including a demand for dowry, which would force her to decline the marriage. The petition was filed by advocate Siddhartha Jha against an order passed by Karnataka High Court , which had in September last year quashed the proceedings in an FIR lodged into the matter related to the alleged rape, after a compromise was reached between the complainant and the accused.