New Delhi: “We told him not to leave, but he accompanied him to Uttarakhand.
He was dead now and he must be hanged,” said the 29-year-old woman who was believed to have been pushed to his death on the cliff by her husband in Nainital in June , The police restored his body for only a month and half later.
He had been raped by the man, but then married him when he offered to do it while in prison.
TOI spoke to experts to understand if they resolve cases of rape through marriage justified.
According to the police, Uttarakhand Original Rajesh Roy was jailed in July last year after raping a woman in the Dabri Delhi area.
However, in October, he was released by conditional guarantees when the victim agreed to marry him.
Roy’s family is dazed.
“If he does it, he must be punished because of that.
We think if both are married, the honor of the two families will be guarded,” said the brother of Roy.
Senior Advocates of the Supreme Court Sidharth Luthra told TI that the bail was likely in such cases.
“The rape case falls in two categories.
One of them is when the accusation of rape is based on the victim’s approval of the marriage promise.
Rape without falling approval is another category.
While giving guarantees with the reason the victim and the defendant agreed to get married, maybe it might happen in the first category, no.
There is a legal justification for guarantees in the second category.
“Ranjana Kumari, Director, Center for Social Research, Feeling conditional guarantees given on the basis of marriage must have certain provisions.
“In particular in this case, the woman and the man agreed to get married, but the defendant should be told to regularly report to the police or the court can oppose marriage because he is a rape,” Kumari said.
The sister remembered that the family opposed him to marry the defendant, but he believed Roy really wanted to be with him.
On June 11, when the defendant asked him to accompany him to Uttarakhand, the family was worried to send him and even approach the police station to ask investigative officers in the case of rape if both of them had to be left together.
Then, when the family could not contact him on the phone even after four days, they went to the police.
The police then told the female family of what had happened.
“His body recovered in a very decomposed condition but we recognized his clothes and jewelry,” said the brother.
A team led by Surinder Sandhu Inspector, Sho of Dabri Police Station, and the Narender has combed 150 hilly areas before finding the body on Monday.
Roy told his interrogator that he called him to an isolated location, strangling him and threw his body down the cliff before going home near Rudrapur and told his brother that he wanted to bring his wife with him but his family did not allow him to leave.