{"id":222388,"date":"2011-05-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/gagandeep-singh-rana-vs-state-of-punjab-on-2-may-2011"},"modified":"2017-03-01T21:15:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T15:45:39","slug":"gagandeep-singh-rana-vs-state-of-punjab-on-2-may-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/gagandeep-singh-rana-vs-state-of-punjab-on-2-may-2011","title":{"rendered":"Gagandeep Singh @ Rana vs State Of Punjab on 2 May, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Gagandeep Singh @ Rana vs State Of Punjab on 2 May, 2011<\/div>\n<pre>  IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT\n                  CHANDIGARH\n\n\n                        Crl. Misc. No. M-9222 of 2011 (O&amp;M)\n\n                              Date of Decision: May 02, 2011\n\nGagandeep Singh @ Rana.\n\n                                            .        ....Petitioner\n\n                              Versus\n\n\nState of Punjab.\n\n                                                   ... Respondent\n\nCORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ALOK SINGH\n\n     1.    Whether reporters of local news papers may be\n           allowed to see judgment?\n\n     2.    To be referred to reporters or not?\n\n     3.    Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest?\n\nPresent:   Mr. Swarn Sandhir, Advocate,\n           for the petitioner.\n\n\nAlok Singh, J. (Oral)\n<\/pre>\n<p>           This is a petition seeking anticipatory bail in case<\/p>\n<p>FIR No. 42 dated 24.02.2011, under Sections 420, 376 of<\/p>\n<p>the Indian Penal Code, registered at Police Station Division<\/p>\n<p>No.4 (Civil Lines), Ludhiana City.\n<\/p>\n<p>           As per the contents of the FIR, accused-petitioner<\/p>\n<p>made false promise with the prosecutrix to marry with her<\/p>\n<p>and made physical contacts with her. She became pregnant<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\"> Crl. Misc. No. M-9222 of 2011                                 2<\/span><\/p>\n<p>and thereafter got aborted and ultimately petitioner-accused<\/p>\n<p>refused to marry with her.\n<\/p>\n<p>           Learned counsel for the petitioner has vehemently<\/p>\n<p>argued that since the petitioner, as well as, the prosecutrix<\/p>\n<p>are major and sexual relationship was made with her<\/p>\n<p>consent and will, therefore, no offence punishable under<\/p>\n<p>Section 376 IPC is made out.\n<\/p>\n<p>           As per Section 90 of the Indian Penal Code, if<\/p>\n<p>consent is obtained by playing fraud with false promise to<\/p>\n<p>marry with the prosecutrix, then it cannot be said to be free<\/p>\n<p>consent. Free consent \/ willingness is sine qua non to say<\/p>\n<p>that physical relations were made with the consent of the<\/p>\n<p>prosecutrix. Since consent was obtained by playing fraud,<\/p>\n<p>therefore, it cannot be said to be a free consent. Prima facie<\/p>\n<p>offence under Section 376 IPC seems to have been made out<\/p>\n<p>against   the   petitioner.   No   ground   is   made   out   for<\/p>\n<p>anticipatory bail.\n<\/p>\n<p>           Dismissed. However, it is made clear that any<\/p>\n<p>observation made herein before is only for the purpose of<\/p>\n<p>deciding this bail application.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<pre>May 02, 2011                                ( Alok Singh )\nvkd                                              Judge\n <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab-Haryana High Court Gagandeep Singh @ Rana vs State Of Punjab on 2 May, 2011 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. Misc. No. M-9222 of 2011 (O&amp;M) Date of Decision: May 02, 2011 Gagandeep Singh @ Rana. . &#8230;.Petitioner Versus State of Punjab. &#8230; Respondent CORAM: HON&#8217;BLE MR. 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