High Court

Facebook girlfriend

rape

She filed four complaints in four police stations against on-and-off boyfriendA man who could not stop going back to his lover had three complaints filed against him in three different police stations by her. He had to come to theto get himself disentangled from the legal mess he found himself in from hisThe 35-year-old approached the HC challenging a complaint filed against him in the Annapoorneshwari Nagar police station by his on and off girlfriend. He has been charged withamong other charges by her. His girlfriend is already married to another person and has a child. The husband is said to have deserted her.She met the current lover on Facebook in 2015. He allegedly promised to marry her. They celebrated the new year in a hotel room where he allegedly raped her in a drunken state. He repented and the two continued their relationship for two more years. In 2017, she got to know he was getting engaged to another girl and lodged a complaint before the Girinagar police. However, the two compromised and the complaint was not pursued.Facebook tied them again and they started chatting again. They started seeing each other again and they decided to marry. The matter reached the Cubbonpet police where he allegedly gave an undertaking to marry her. The wedding was fixed at the sub-registrar’s office. But on the day, he did not turn up. That is when the woman filed the compliant in the Annaporneshwari Nagar police.In the HC, it was pointed out that there was another complaint filed in the Chandra Layout police by the woman two years earlier. The police had filed a charge sheet before the court in that case. The HC found that “similar allegations have been made right from 2015 to 2017 as to what has happened between the petitioner and the victim/complainant.”