Key legal question
Whether the victim had to file a complaint because the parties formed a domestic community
Extracted holding
No. Their cohabitation was not a domestic community within Art. 110(2) SCC; the prosecution therefore did not depend on a complaint.
Extracted reasoning
The court applied a restrictive, objective test: shared household life must be durable and quasi-family-like. Here the relationship had deteriorated, the victim sought to stay away, and the appellant was already arranging to live elsewhere.