-SATISH HANDA
According to a study report by the legal experts, between 40-50% complaints registered with the police by females related to sex molestation, rape against opposite sex in Haryana state are found fake during police investigation or trial in the court. As usually seen, relationship between both sexes generally starts through Face Book friendship leading to chatting on mobile phone or other reasons and gradually both willingly involved in sex relationship and later on break between both the female partner not finding her male friend up to her expectation not only break relationship but also lodge a complaint with police against him sexually exploited her and in-spite of being innocent male partner had to remain behind bars for months or years.
Recently, on October 15 this year a 21 years old youth Yash Mathur of Jaipur selected in Indian Air Force had to commit suicide when he was alleged accuse by his female friend for raping her. Not only this, there is a long list of innocent victims suffered harassment when deceived by their female friends made false sex exploitation allegations against them for one reason or the other often attracting headlines in newspapers everyday. It is a matter of concern that misuse of law for safety of females are constantly fast rising since past sometime which demand immediate ban over its misuse.
According to National Crime Bureau record, during year 2015 nearly 21% false rape cases were found registered by the females accusing raped by their male partners assuring to marry them or alleged raped after offering intoxicated drink and in some cases prepared her nude video in order to black mail her but during police investigation the allegations were found untrue and police failed to find any evidence as regard the alleged accuse made any assurance to marry her or any clue as regard offering intoxicated drink or prepared her nude video and any medical report that the complainant was raped, The number of such cases increased to 51% in 2019 and according to information the number of such cases has been much increased in past two years. Information reveals, courts in the country are flooded with false sex exploitation and rape cases.
According to legal experts, courts usually face difficulty while deciding such cases if it was a rape case or sex relations were made after mutual consent and in later cases most of the time the alleged accuse had to remain behind bars till final decision in the court is taken and large number of such cases are seen hanging on fire for a long time. Rising number of honey trap cases are being reported in which rackets are functioning to trap rich people to extract money from them. It is seen, usually courts support female complainants and now the trend is changing due to large number of false cases registered by police under section 396 IPC. Recently, a court in Delhi during interrogation found that male was falsely implicated in a rape case and severely punished female complainant for registering a false complaint.
If we look at the past, courts were seen flooded with cases registered with police under section 498 IPC (dowry demand) and on such complaints police usually arresting all members in the family named in the complaint. Supreme Court of India in 2005 finding misuse of law directed ban over immediate arrests of alleged accuse after registration of the case till investigation completes. Since now large numbers of false cases are being registered with police under sections 396 IP widely misusing law, according to legal experts there is urgent need to provide relief to alleged accuse in such cases, failing which Supreme Court of India will have to take similar action in cases registered under section498 IPC.
