The Karnataka High Court has held that a relationship, which started mutually and ended in “disappointment” cannot be converted into a criminal offence as it quashed an FIR against a man facing rape charges.

Justice M Nagaprasanna was deciding the man’s plea seeking quashing of FIR against him.

“A relationship born of mutual volition, even if it founders in disappointment, cannot, save in clearest of cases, be transmuted into an offence under the criminal law,” the judge said on October 25.

The court further said that allowing the trial of the case would lead to a “ritualistic procession towards miscarriage of justice”.

“If the present prosecution were permitted to meander into a trial, it would be nothing but a ritualistic procession towards miscarriage of justice and indeed become an

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