Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has quashed an FIR against a 23-year-old man accused of raping a woman he met on a dating app , observing that a relationship entered into by mutual consent cannot be converted into a criminal offence except in the “clearest of cases”.

Allowing the petition filed by the man, Justice M Nagaprasanna said, “A relationship born of mutual volition, even if it founders in disappointment, cannot, save in the clearest of cases, be transmuted into an offence under the criminal law.”

According to the prosecution, the accused and the complainant got acquainted through a dating app and later maintained regular contact on Instagram for over a year. On August 11, 2024, the two met in person, had a meal together, and subsequently went to a hotel where they alleg

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