and medical examinations of the parties. Obviously, after lapse of more than one and half year, this investigation was not likely to reveal anything significant. The FIR makes allegations that on two occasions the applicant had committed rape on the prosecutrix i.e. in the months of August, 2017 and February, 2018 when she was alone in the house. Besides these two occasions, once before the applicant had tried to outrage her modesty. On the first occasion, he did that act when the prosecutrix’s mother-in-law, as well as, applicant’s wife were present in the house. Therefore, it is difficult to believe that such incident could have happened. The most important factor in this case is that, from February 2018 till August 2019 the prosecutrix had not made her grievance known to any authority. She was under protection of her father since October, 2018. This long delay, at this stage, raises doubt about her version. This has to be looked into in the background of the fact that her husband had filed Marriage Petition in the month of June 2019, she had appeared through her advocate in July 2019 and thereafter this FIR is lodged. Therefore, there is considerable force in the submission of Shri. Joshi that this FIR was lodged to put
