India, May 30 -- The Delhi High Court on Friday granted bail to a 51-year-old advocate accused of repeatedly raping and assaulting a 27-year-old woman lawyer and allegedly attempting to influence her through judicial officers.

A bench of justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani said the allegations concerning interference with the judicial process, based on the material presently relied upon by the State, are undoubtedly serious, but the material indicated that it was the woman who had approached the officers and that neither of the judicial officers was concerned with or seized of the case arising from the FIR in their judicial capacity.

"Coming to the allegations of interference with the judicial process, the material presently relied upon by th...