Kunal Chatterjee vs State Of West Bengal - IPC - Rape - Promise To Marry

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 375,376 - Promise to marriage and the subsequent physical relationship between the two with consent would not amount to rape. [SC allowed appeal filed by accused and quashed a rape case and observed: Under the present facts and circumstances of the case and the nature of the evidence with the prosecution, particularly the long delay in lodging the FIR itself suggest that the present criminal proceedings lodged against the appellant are nothing but an abuse of the process of law and the High Court ought to have invoked its inherent jurisdiction in the case of the appellant as well as it did while quashing the proceedings for the remaining accused.]