Sex workers cannot alleged rape on Customers if they refused to pay

A sex worker cannot make a complaint of sexual assault if a customer refuses to pay the amount to her. Bench comprised of Justices Pinaki Chandra Ghose and Amitava Roy, acquitted the three accused’s, bench said that the evidence given by a woman alleging rape cannot be taken as “gospel truth”.
Prosecutrix, who worked as maid alleged that she was kidnapped by three men in an autorickshaw, taken to a garage and repeatedly raped. But after interrogating her roommate, it was found that though it was shocking, she stated that ” After completing her day’s work as a maid, the woman used to take up sex work in the evenings. The men had apparently refused to pay up Rs 1,000 which they owed her, which had provoked her into filing the complaint. The woman later confessed she had brought the rape charge on the men, hoping to coerce them into paying up her dues.”
Bench added that “It can never be presumed that her statement should always, without exception, be taken as gospel truth.”