An individual from Maharashtra kills his 28-year-old live-in partner after she accuses him of rape

A 43-year-old man from Palghar district in Maharashtra is accused of killing his 28-year-old live-in girlfriend after becoming enraged about a rape complaint brought against him, Vasai police said on Tuesday.

The victim’s corpse hasn’t been recovered yet, although it may have been slain between August 9 and August 12. Police believe that the culprits may have dumped the corpse in Gujarat’s neighboring Vapi town.

The accused was detained on Tuesday as a result of a missing person’s report that the victim’s family submitted to the Naigaon police station on August 14, according to Padmaja Bade, Vasai’s Assistant Commissioner of Police. The accused is a resident of the Vasai neighborhood in Palghar.

According to a preliminary investigation, the accused was upset that the victim had reported him for rape, which led to the filing of a criminal complaint against him, according to ACP Bade. She continued by saying that the guy reportedly murdered the lady because she refused to drop the lawsuit.

According to the official, the accused is also the subject of a case of aiding suicide that has been filed against him at a different police station in the Mira Bhayander-Vasai Virar police boundaries.

On Monday, Naigaon Police, acting on a complaint from the victim’s sister, filed a FIR against the accused under sections 201 and 302 of the Indian Penal Code.

PIL filed with the Supreme Court to record cohabitation

Mamta Rani, an attorney, urged the government to establish regulations for the official registration of live-in relationships in a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) she filed in the Supreme Court earlier this year. She cited an increase in reported incidents of crimes like rape and murder that allegedly involved people in live-in relationships. In the request, which called for the creation of norms and regulations for the registration of such agreements, reference was made to the Shraddha Walkar murder case, which occurred in May of last year.

There isn’t currently any specific law governing live-in partnerships. However, the Indian legal system has developed a corpus of case laws through time via a number of judgments. According to the Supreme Court’s decision in the Badri Prasad v. Dy. Director of Consolidation case (1978), live-in relationships are acceptable in India as long as certain requirements are met, including the legal marriage age, consent, and mental ability.