Justice Varma has not yet offered any explanation about the recovered money. According to news agency PTI, he did not hold court today.

The withdrawal comes two weeks after it was accepted and a day after it was published in the Trademark Journal.

The court took into account the underage girl's claims that she had a consensual affair with the accused and added that she was conscious of her conduct.

The Bombay High Court stated that both the victim and the accused were of the age to have a reasonable understanding of their conduct.

The court said that if the litigant was so very concerned about the construction of illegal religious structures on government land, he should have taken measures to challenge all such illegal structures.

"It is for the prosecution and the Court to determine whether such a person, notwithstanding his crime, can be reformed and rehabilitated," the court said

After reading the FIR, Justice Lakshminarayan said that “This is pure victim blaming”, asking Attorney General PS Ramam whether he had read it.

The interim order also sends a troubling message: that violence, or the apprehension thereof, can shape judicial outcomes.

According to the Centre, marital rape is more of a social issue than a legal one

The court categorically labelled the case as an example of “Love Jihad.” The court observed that Alim posed as a Hindu to lure the victim into a relationship under false pretences.