GURUGRAM: The Juvenile Justice Board has acquitted a 17-year-old boy accused of raping a married woman after it emerged that he is actually the victim.Principal magistrate of JJB, Gurugram, Maglesh Kumar Choubey said in his order it was the woman who got into a consensual physical relationship with the boy and pressed rape charges when his mother foiled her plan to marry the teenager.“The prosecution has failed to prove the guilt of the juvenile beyond all shadow of doubt. The law is absolutely clear and everyone has to understand that every sexual intercourse between a man and a woman is not rape,” he said, absolving the boy of all charges.“The woman is not a minor who cannot understand the consequences of her act... The conduct of the woman to voluntarily enter into a physical relationship with the juvenile for such a long time without any initial intentions to marry suggests that the boy was not at fault and he probably was trapped,” the court noted.Coming down heavily on the complainant, the JJB observed that “no woman can be allowed to enter into a physical relationship with a juvenile and take benefit of rape law subsequently if her wishes are not fulfilled”. However, it stopped short of initiating legal action against her for filing the “false case”.The board also directed police to be very sensitive in handling such cases. “An innocent victim of rape dies every moment... But at the same time, every person who is falsely implicated is a victim in the same manner,” it observed.The case dates back to June 23 last year when an FIR was registered at women’s police station, Sector 51, against the boy under sections 376 (rape) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC, on the complaint of the woman.The woman, herself a mother of a boy, came to Gurgaon in 2017 in search of a job and met the teenager, originally from Nainital, who has been living in the city with his parents. Subsequently, she discussed her problems with the boy and they became close to each other and developed a relationship.Initially, the teenager had wanted to marry the woman but the latter compelled him to shelve the plan. Subsequently after several months of physical relationship, the woman came up a with a plan to get married, but it did not materialise as the boy’s mother objected to it.Later, with the intervention of police and the state women’s commission, a compromise was reached between the woman and the teenager in presence of his family, where it was decided that she will move to his house.When the boy’s parents allegedly went back on their promise and demanded Rs 1.5 lakh from the woman, she filed a rape case.