The Karnataka High Court has quashed a woman’s FIR accusing a man she matched with on the Bumble dating app of raping her. Justice M Nagaprasanna held that their “relationship was born of mutual volition” and therefore could not amount to a criminal offence.

The woman had approached the police after a meeting with the man she had accused—a 23-year-old identified for the purpose of this article as Mr A . The two had stayed in touch for more than a year over social media after they matched on Bumble.

According to the accused, they had stayed in touch via Instagram before deciding to meet in person on August 11, 2024.

The woman further said in her complaint, “He picked me up from my apartment and took me to an Oyo room … Shortly after settling in, Mr A began to seduce me into sexual inte

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