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.
A PIL in the Delhi High Court seeks to include transgender women under rape laws, challenging Section 63 BNS and Section 18 of the Transgender Rights Act. Senior Advocate N Hariharan has been appointed as Amicus Curiae to assist the Court.
