'Don't Weaponise Rape Law In Broken Relationships': Supreme Court Warns Against Misuse

'Don't Weaponise Rape Law In Broken Relationships': Supreme Court Warns Against Misuse

The Supreme Court stressed that adult consent given freely during a relationship cannot be retrospectively invalidated merely because the partnership dissolved

Discourage weaponisation of rape law in relationships gone sour: SC

Failed relationships cannot turn consensual sex into rape: Supreme Court

Court distinguishes between consent allegedly obtained through deception and regret over consensual intimacy after a relationship ends

Physical intimacy cannot be branded as rape merely because relationship soured: Supreme Court

It noted that the woman “does not also deny the fact that she was made aware of the pre-existing marriage of the appellant within a few months of cohabiting with him from his brother”.

'Does A Man Not Have Right To End Relationship?' Supreme Court On False Rape Cases

The bench clarified that the termination of a relationship cannot render previously consensual sexual relations criminal.