The Delhi High Court has granted bail to an AIIMS doctor accused of raping a woman on the promise of marriage, prima facie observing they were in "an active and consensual live-in relationship".
Justice Shalinder Kaur, who was hearing the bail plea of the junior resident doctor, said the woman got more FIRs registered for similar offences against others and some cases, including that of extortion, were also filed against her.
"Significantly, this court has also been informed by the counsel for the petitioner that the prosecutrix has lodged other FIRs of offences similar to the one in the present case, against other persons and also that some FIRs have been lodged against her," the court said.
The extortion case was registered against the woman in which she was accused of extorting money from a man and his family, threatening them with criminal implication.
In its order dated May 30, the court said, "What emerges from the material placed before this court is a complex factual matrix wherein contradictory versions regarding the nature of the relationship between the petitioner (doctor) and the prosecutrix must be carefully weighed."
