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The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the plea of a rape survivor, who intended to marry her assaulter, a priest in jail for the crime.
The 25 year old rape survivor from Kottiyoor Kerala had moved SC to seek seek permission from the top court to marry her assaulter - a 49-year-old priest, who is now undergoing 20 years imprisonment.
The top court also dismissed a separate plea of the defrocked priest seeking bail on the ground that he wanted to marry the survivor, who was a minor at the time of rape had given birth to a child.
A bench of Justices Vineet Saran and Dinesh Maheshwari told the former priest, 바카라The high court has taken a decision consciously and we would not like to interfere with its finding바카라.
It told the victim that she may knock on the door of trial court with her plea to marry the former priest.
Advocate Amit George, appearing for the former priest, said the high court had passed sweeping directions in the case with regard to the marriage, which is a fundamental right.
The bench asked George what is the age of the victim and the former priest to which he replied that he is 49, while the rape survivor is around 25.
The top court told George, 바카라you yourself have invited sweeping directions from the high court and it would not like to interfere바카라. (With PTI inputs)
