Relationship Born of Mutual Volition Cannot Be Criminalised”; Relief Granted to Man Accused of Rape by Woman He Met on Bumble: Karnataka High Court “
The Karnataka High Court has quashed an FIR filed against a 23-year-old man accused of rape after meeting a woman on the dating application Bumble. Justice M. Nagaprasanna delivered the judgment, stating that when two adults voluntarily enter into a relationship, even if it later leads to disappointment, it cannot automatically be converted into a criminal offence under the criminal law, except in the clearest of cases. Case Background and…