Summary:
Thus, he committed an act of fraud, leading her to believe that he would marry her.” He said police can go ahead with the rape case. Her complaint says that he got her into a physical relationship by saying that she should not have any problem since they were going to marry. The marriage was fixed though Sharma's mother was opposed to it, say police. BHOPAL: "A woman's body is not a man's play thing," Madhya Pradesh high court observed on Thursday as it dismissed a petition filed by man accused of raping a woman on the false promise of marriage.A week ago, the HC had in a different case said that consent obtained for sex on the pretext of marriage is "not free consent" and police are justified in registering a case of rape. The court reiterated this on Thursday while hearing a petition filed by Bhopal resident Rajeev Sharma seeking quashing of rape charges filed against him by his former fiance.Sharma had developed friendship with a dance teacher on Facebook and proposed marriage to her, which she accepted..