Calcutta HC Reduces Sentence Of Rape Accused As He Married The Victim [Read Judgment] | Live Law

Calcutta HC Reduces Sentence Of Rape Accused As He Married The Victim [Read Judgment] | Live Law: ‘The fact that the prosecutrix and the appellant are married (to each other) and have settled in life with their children appears to be “adequate and special reason” for imposing lesser sentence.’ In July 2015, the Supreme Court had pronounced a judgment in which it categorically observed that in a case of rape or attempt …