Overview

• Justice Girish Kathpalia ruled the FIR’s allegations transcend a routine matrimonial dispute due to charges of rape, gangrape, sexual harassment, cruelty and criminal breach of trust.
• Court records state the husband created a fake Instagram account with his wife’s photos to solicit paid sexual encounters on social media.
• The wife’s FIR details physical abuse including blade injuries and forced participation in partner-swapping at a hotel where she was molested.
• Allegations include sexual harassment by the wife’s brother-in-law, which the husband allegedly dismissed when reported.
• During his anticipatory bail period, the accused allegedly contacted his wife from a new SIM card under a fictitious name, with investigators tracing the number back to him.