"Facilitated Crime By Running Hotel Without Valid License, Not Keeping Records": Delhi HC Denies Anticipatory Bail To Hotel Owner In Minor Rape Case
3 years, 6 months ago

"Facilitated Crime By Running Hotel Without Valid License, Not Keeping Records": Delhi HC Denies Anticipatory Bail To Hotel Owner In Minor Rape Case

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The Delhi High Court has denied anticipatory bail to the owner of a hotel where a 16-year old minor girl was allegedly kept and raped for four days, after observing that he facilitated in the crime by running the hotel without a valid license and not keeping records of guests.Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar also observed that had the ID of victim and the primary accused been taken at the time. The Delhi High Court has denied anticipatory bail to the owner of a hotel where a 16-year old minor girl was allegedly kept and raped for four days, after observing that he facilitated in the crime by running the hotel without a valid license and not keeping records of guests. Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar also observed that had the ID of victim and the primary accused been taken at the time of booking, the minor girl would have been saved from rape. It was alleged that the minor victim was kidnapped by one Jitender Pal, the primary accused, who took her to a hotel in Delhi's Nizamuddin area where she was raped multiple times.

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Booking hotel room and entering with man doesn’t imply consent for sex: Bombay High Court
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Booking hotel room and entering with man doesn’t imply consent for sex: Bombay High Court

Live Mint  

In a case of alleged rape, the Bombay High Court at Goa has ruled that even if a girl has booked a hotel room along with a man and goes inside the room, it does not mean that she has given her consent for sexual intercourse. A single-judge bench of the Bombay High Court led by Justice Bharat Deshpande quashed …

Hotel room entry not consent to sex: Bombay HC
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Hotel room entry not consent to sex: Bombay HC

Deccan Chronicle  

In a significant ruling, the Goa Bench of the Bombay High Court stated that a woman booking a hotel room with a man and entering it with him does not imply consent to sexual intercourse. The Court quashed the trial court's 2021 discharge order, which had closed the rape case against accused Gulsher Ahmed. The trial court had reasoned that …

Bombay High Court says booking, entering a hotel room does not mean ‘consent for sex’
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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Bombay High Court says booking, entering a hotel room does not mean ‘consent for sex’

Hindustan Times  

In a major ruling, the Bombay High Court at Goa observed that a girl booking and entering a hotel room with a man does not implicate her consent to sexual intercourse. Bombay HC said the victim's actions right after exiting the hotel room show that she did not consent to any sexual acts. The Bombay HC opined that the Trial …

Girl Booking Hotel Room, Entering It With Boy Does Not Mean She Consented To Sex: Bombay High Court
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Girl Booking Hotel Room, Entering It With Boy Does Not Mean She Consented To Sex: Bombay High Court

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In a significant ruling, the Bombay High Court at Goa held that even if a girl books a hotel room along with a man and goes inside the room, it would not mean that she has consented to sexual intercourse.Single-judge Justice Bharat Deshpande quashed an order passed by a Trial Court in Margao on March 3, 2021, discharging a man …

"No Girl Would Accompany An Unknown Boy To A Hotel Room On Their First Meeting": Bombay High Court Acquits Man Booked For Rape
6 months, 2 weeks ago

"No Girl Would Accompany An Unknown Boy To A Hotel Room On Their First Meeting": Bombay High Court Acquits Man Booked For Rape

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The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court while acquitting a man convicted for raping a girl, observed that no prudent girl would ever go to a hotel room on her very first meeting with an unknown boy as the same would send "alarming" signals to the girl about the boy. Terming the story "unbelievable", Justice Sanap noted that the …

Prosecutrix Travelling & Enjoying Hospitality Of Accused After Alleging Rape Belies The Allegations: Gujarat High Court Grants Bail
2 years, 7 months ago

Prosecutrix Travelling & Enjoying Hospitality Of Accused After Alleging Rape Belies The Allegations: Gujarat High Court Grants Bail

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The Gujarat High Court recently granted bail to a man accused of participating in gang-rape of the prosecutrix, after noting that the latter was on very friendly terms with the accused and even after levelling such grave allegations, she had been travelling with him and had been enjoying his hospitality. Justice Rajendra Sareen observed, The High Court further noted that …

East Delhi gang rape: Court denies bail to accused man
2 years, 7 months ago

East Delhi gang rape: Court denies bail to accused man

Hindustan Times  

A Delhi court has denied bail to an accused in the January gang-rape and torture of a 21-year-old woman in east Delhi’s Shahdara, saying it was “serious and heinous offence committed with not just illegality but with a brutal and perverted mentality”. Additional sessions judge Amitabh Rawat rejected the contention of the accused that his name was not mentioned in …

Rape Accused Marries Prosecutrix: Delhi High Court Grants Anticipatory Bail To Accused
4 years, 4 months ago

Rape Accused Marries Prosecutrix: Delhi High Court Grants Anticipatory Bail To Accused

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The Delhi High Court on Friday allowed the anticipatory bail application of a rape accused after the victim's mother expressed that she has no objection to the same. In view of these submissions, a Single Bench of Justice Manoj Kumar Ohri allowed the pre-arrest bail plea and ordered that in the event of his arrest, the petitioner be released on …

Delhi woman raped in Hyderabad hotel, four arrested
7 years, 7 months ago

Delhi woman raped in Hyderabad hotel, four arrested

Hindustan Times  

The Hyderabad police on Friday arrested a 40-year old man who allegedly raped a 20-year old maid servant from New Delhi at gunpoint at a hotel in the upscale Banjara Hills in the city in the early hours of Wednesday. According to the police, the maid servant, a resident of Mahipalpur in Delhi, accompanied Payal, daughter of her employer and …

Consent of Minor Girl is not even a mitigating Circumstance to reduce the Sentence in Rape Case; Delhi HC [Read Judgment]
8 years, 10 months ago

Consent of Minor Girl is not even a mitigating Circumstance to reduce the Sentence in Rape Case; Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

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Delhi High Court Today has held that since the consent of a girl below the age of 16 years is immaterial, the same cannot be treated as a mitigating circumstance so as to award a sentence lesser than 7 years rigorous imprisonment.It is argued on behalf of the Accused that the fact that the prosecutrix was in love with the …

Consent of Minor Girl is not even a mitigating Circumstance to reduce the Sentence in Rape Case; Delhi HC [Read Judgment]
8 years, 10 months ago

Consent of Minor Girl is not even a mitigating Circumstance to reduce the Sentence in Rape Case; Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

Delhi High Court Today has held that since the consent of a girl below the age of 16 years is immaterial, the same cannot be treated as a mitigating circumstance so as to award a sentence lesser than 7 years rigorous imprisonment.It is argued on behalf of the Accused that the fact that the prosecutrix was in love with the …

Inform cops if couple stays in hotel for less than 2 hours
9 years, 7 months ago

Inform cops if couple stays in hotel for less than 2 hours

India TV News  

Ahmedabad: In a move that may trigger a controversy, the city police commissioner today directed the owners of hotels and guest-houses to inform the local police if a young couple occupies a room for less than two hours. “If a young girl and boy come to stay in a room without any bags and if they leave in two hours …

Delhi court acquits youth accused of raping 15-year-old cousin
11 years, 9 months ago

Delhi court acquits youth accused of raping 15-year-old cousin

India TV News  

New Delhi, Jun 25 : A youth, accused of raping his 15-year-old cousin after kidnapping her last year, has been acquitted by a Delhi court which said the girl was a "consenting party" and it appears that she had done everything with her "sweet will". Additional Sessions Judge Illa Rawat acquitted the Delhi resident of the charges of kidnapping and …

Delhi gang rape: victim’s friend testifies before court
12 years, 1 month ago

Delhi gang rape: victim’s friend testifies before court

The Hindu  

The 28-year-old male friend of the girl, who was brutally gang-raped in a moving bus, on Tuesday, appeared before a fast- track court in New Delhi to testify about the incident to which he is the sole eyewitness. The youth, a software engineer, came in a wheelchair to the court of Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna after he was summoned …

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