'No resistance during sexual assault amounts to pre-consent'

Giving the benefit of doubt to a man who was convicted and sentenced in a sexual assault case, the Madras high court acquitted him by observing that the non-raising of resistance during the first time of sexual assault amounts to pre-consent and accordingly, the consent given by the woman cannot be held as a misconception of fact.

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