‘Vendetta': HC Quashes Rape FIR Filed by Woman Against Brothers, Parents
hopal/Jabalpur: The Madhya Pradesh High Court quashed an FIR lodged by a woman against her two brothers, accusing them of rape, and her parents for aiding and abetting the crime.
The bench of Justice Sanjay Dwivedi stated that the woman lodged the FIR as an act of vendetta after her brothers and parents refused to give her money. To proceed with the case would be sheer abuse of the legal process, Justice Dwivedi said in the recent order.
The two brothers, who are govt employees, and their parents faced charges under IPC for rape, voluntarily causing hurt, criminal intimidation, criminal conspiracy, and causing the disappearance of evidence after the woman filed an FIR on October 16, 2022.
She claimed her brothers raped her on February 22 that year, and that her father and mother deliberately turned up the TV volume to drown out her cries for help.
The accused moved HC, pleading that the FIR was lodged with the intention to frame them in a false case. They said she moved in with the parents after her second divorce and demanded Rs 10,000 from each of them and her brothers.
When her parents refused to give her money, she thrashed them and threatened to frame them in a fake case, said the petition. Her mother lodged a police complaint in this regard on August 22, 2022. When police questioned the daughter then, she didn't say anything about the alleged rape, and there was no justification for lodging the FIR eight months later, in October 2022, the court said. After hearing all sides, HC ordered the quashing of the FIR.
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