Consensual Intimacy Cannot Be Retrospectively Branded As Rape: Allahabad HC Quashes Rape Case Arising From Broken Relationship

The High Court of Judicature at Allahabad has quashed the criminal proceedings and charge sheet against an accused charged with rape on the false promise of marriage, ruling that a prolonged physical relationship between consenting adults cannot be retrospectively branded as rape merely because the relationship failed to culminate in marriage. Justice Avnish Saxena held

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