New Delhi, August 23: A Delhi court noted that a woman's drunkenness cannot give permission to her boyfriend to take unfair advantage of her state, while it upheld the man's conviction for using illegal force by attempting to kiss the woman and voluntarily inflicting pain by slapping her.

Under sections 354 (attack or criminal force on woman with the purpose to insult her modesty) and 323 (voluntarily inflicting pain), respectively, of the Indian Penal Code, the court maintained the man's conviction. UK: Indian Student Preet Vikal Seen Carrying Drunk Woman to His Flat to Rape Her in Chilling Video; Arrested by Cardiff Police.

Even if the medical examination of the complainant would have shown that she was drunk at that time, that in itself would not have been of any consequence as the intoxication of a victim does not give licence to her male friend to take undue advantage of her condition, said Court of Additional Sessions Judge Sunil Gupta, rejecting the man's argument that there could not have been any conviction under Section 323 because the woman's medical examination was not completed. But under Section 506 Parts I and II of the IPC, the court cleared him of criminal intimidation, noting that the prosecution had utterly failed to establish the crime.

A Mahila court's verdict convicting him of the charges under Sections 354, 323, and 506 Part-(I) & (II) of the IPC, as well as the one-year prison sentence imposed upon him, were challenged by the accused.

The magistrate court granted his request to have his sentence suspended and to be granted bail until he filed an appeal. Based on the convict's account, the complainant was seeing someone else, and as they practised different religions, her parents opposed their marriage.

He informed the judge that the woman had been in touch with him some time after divorcing her husband and that she had filed the lawsuit in response to his demand for the money she had borrowed. Rape Inside Mumbai Local Train! Girl Student Sexually Assaulted in Moving Train Between CSMT and Masjid Station, Accused Arrested.

The court stated that there is no legal provision stating that a simple injury violation under section 323 IPC cannot be proven without the victim's medical assessment, particularly where the accusations involve her being smacked.

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