“No” means “no”, and being in a relationship does not give a man the “license” to sexually assault his fiancée, the Himachal Pradesh High Court has said while denying anticipatory bail to a man accused of sexually assaultin g his fiancée and causing injuries to her.

Justice Chirag Bhanu Singh described the man’s conduct as “totally inhuman”, reflecting a “barbaric and diabolical mindset” and noted that the woman’s allegations were supported by medical evidence , including burn marks and other injuries on her body.

“Even if in a relationship, it did not give him a license to ravish the prosecutrix (woman) sexually and that too, in such a barbaric way. ‘No’ had to mean a ‘No’.…