Nov 11- In a major ruling, the Bombay High Court at Goa observed that a girl booking and entering a hotel room with a man does not implicate her consent to sexual intercourse. A single-judge bench of the HC led by Justice Bharat Deshpande, in September this year dismissed a March 2021 order passed by a Margao Trial Court, which discharged one Gulsher Ahmed from rape charges stating that the woman’s role in booking the hotel room implied consent to sexual activity. Canacona Police had arrested Uttarakhand native tailor Gulsher Ahmed in March 2020 for allegedly raping a 20-year-old girl from South Goa in a hotel room at Palolem. Ahmed had allegedly taken the girl to the hotel on the pretext of meeting an agent who would give her get a job overseas, and eventually sexually assaulted her.
