The court also noted that the convict had developed intimacy with her with an "ulterior motive of satiating his sexual lust upon her" and ruined the life of not just the victim but the woman he married later.
"I feel the convict deceived not only the victim but also the girl with whom he got married later on," Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhatt said, while awarding ten years rigorous imprisonment to Delhi-based Gurbachan Singh.
The court, however, acquitted Singh's parents, who were also accused of intimidating the woman, due to "lack of any credible and clinching evidence".
The judge said that Singh took undue advantage of the situation in which the victim was placed after the death of her husband and "in order to satiate his sexual lust upon her, he extended a false promise and assurance of marriage to her, knowing that she is a widow".
The court held Singh guilty of the offences of rape and threatening to kill the woman, with whom he was in a live-in relationship, if she disclosed it to anyone, saying he did not have any intention to marry her since the very beginning.
According to the prosecution, the woman, who had a love affair with Singh and was residing with him for one year in a rented flat, had lodged a complaint on September 21, 2012, alleging that he forcefully established physical relations with her on the pretext of marrying her.