Rape Case Against Advocate Quashed as Consensual Relationship Cannot Be Criminalised Over Failed Promise of Marriage: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of India has quashed a rape case filed against an advocate from Chhattisgarh, holding that a consensual relationship between two adults cannot be treated as rape merely because it ended without marriage. The Court clarified that criminal law cannot be used to convert a failed or acrimonious relationship into a prosecution for rape unless the strict legal ingredients of the offence are satisfied. Bench of the Supreme…