The Supreme Court quashed an FIR alleging rape on the false pretext of marriage, holding that the case involved a consensual relationship that later turned bitter. The Court cautioned against criminalising failed personal relationships and misuse of serious penal provisions.
The Supreme Court warned against turning failed relationships into rape cases, calling it a worrying misuse of criminal law. It said consensual intimacy in a genuine relationship cannot later be labelled as rape just because marriage did not happen.
