The Bombay High Court refused to discharge a 32-year-old man from a rape and cheating case noting that he had used "astrological incompatibility" of horoscopes as an excuse to resile from his promise to marry the complainant woman with whom he was in a relationship.

A single bench of Justice SK Shinde rejected an application filed by Avishek Mitra seeking to be discharged from the cheating and rape case registered against him by the suburban Borivli police on a complaint lodged by the woman.