Consensual Relationship Cannot be Criminalised Upon Breakdown: Delhi High Court Quashes Rape and SC/ST Act FIR

The Delhi High Court has quashed an FIR registered for the offences of rape and under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, holding that the allegations arose from a consensual romantic relationship that had turned sour. The Bench of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma observed that a failed relationship cannot

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