New Delhi: Noting that the marriage is a “ploy” to get out of jail, Delhi High Court has rejected the bail plea of a man accused of raping a law student when she was a minor, though the duo is now married.“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 the statement under Section 164 CrPC,” Justice Girish Kathpalia said in a recent order. Marriage to the survivor won’t absolve the accused of the offence, he said.The high court also highlighted the shifting stand of the survivor who now claimed to be unaware of the FIR’s content as the complaint was drafted by her lawyer.The court said it can’t be believed that despite being a law student, she was not aware of the content of the FIR, particularly when the complaint was translated from English to Hindi.Justice Kathpalia rejected the bail of the accused after noting the conduct of accused and the prosecutor.According to the prosecution the man met the girl on social media and befriended her. Later, he allegedly had sexual relations on the pretext of marriage, and forced her to undergo abortions twice.Later, when she attained adulthood, he refused to marry her, resulting in herlodging the FIR. The man then married her in Feb 2026.“At the time of commencement of sexual relations between the accused and the prosecutor, the latter was aged only 16 years and when she attained the age. of majority in the year 2024, the accused refused to get married to her, which led to the present FIR. It is only after the accused was arrested and was in jail that he agreed to get married to her, so by way of order dated 02.02.2026 of this court, his The interim bail application was disposed of directing that he be taken in custody before the qazi, who performed the marriage ceremony,” the high court noted.Additional public prosecutor Sanjeev Sabharwal opposed the bail plea arguing it is a fit case in which the police needs to act against the woman too in view of her testimony.The accused submitted that he was already married to the woman and it was a fit case for bail.He also said that his wife never had any grievance with him and she was not even aware of the contents of her complaint because it was drafted by her lawyer.