A flight lieutenant was granted anticipatory ba-il by a fast-track court in a rape case lodged aga-inst him by a girl working as a manager with a multinational company.
A flight lieutenant was granted anticipatory ba-il by a fast-track court in a rape case lodged aga-inst him by a girl working as a manager with a multinational company.
The court while granting bail to Anurag Tyagi, a Sukhoi fighter pilot, noted that it was not mentioned in the FIR by the victim that she was ever threatened or forced to establish physical relations by him.
“Even during the argument before the court, the prosecutrix admitted that she considered the accused to be her husband and only thereafter the relationship was established between them,” the court noted while directing Fl. Lt. Tyagi to furnish a bail bond of '50,000 with a surety of like amount.
Advocate Pradeep Ra-na, appearing for the ac-cused, argued that relat-ions between the prosec-utrix and his client were consensual and the girl had never said that his client had put her under pressure or threat. The prosecution objected to their move by saying that the accused had forcefully developed physical relations with the prosecutrix.
“Considering the fact that the accused is with the IAF, there are no chances of his evading the process of law or interfering in the administration of justice or to threaten the witnesses as he is not posted in Delhi. He is admitted to anticipatory bail,” the court noted.
The flying lieutenant met the girl on Facebook in 2013. The girl in her complaint has alleged that once he had called her to Hyderabad where he raped her on the pretext of marriage. But they continued meeting each other and had physical relations.
She has alleged that Fl. Lt. Tyagi then suddenly started avoiding her. “I was threatened by his father... and asked to stay away from Tyagi,” she told the police. In July she approached the Delhi police commissioner’s office with her complaint, following which an FIR was registered against Fl. Lt. Tyagi and his father.
