New Delhi, April 9 -- The Delhi High Court on Thursday refused to grant bail to a man accused of raping a law student when she was a minor. The court noted that the prosecutrix and the accused were married to each other.

The high court said that marrying the prosecutrix doesn't absolve the accused of the offence of repeatedly raping a minor.

" Clearly, the marriage was performed by the accused simply as a ploy to get himself bailed out, having committed repeated rapes of a minor girl, as alleged by her in the FIR, and statement under Section 164 CrPC," Justice Girish Kathpalia said.

The High Court questioned the statment given by her to get the accsued out of custody. She had stated that she was unaware of FIR's content as the complain...