Recently, the Karnataka high court ruled that closure of proceedings on account of settlement between parties even for the offence of rape is permissible and proceeded to quash the proceedings against four persons against whom a woman from their own family had filed a rape complaint. In this case, the petitioners approached the court challenging
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