In Brief
A man and woman had a consensual relationship starting in 2017, meeting multiple times over two years. The woman later filed an FIR alleging rape under Section 376(2)(n) IPC and criminal intimidation after the man married in 2019. The Supreme Court allowed the man's appeal and quashed the FIR, holding that no promise of marriage was made at the outset, the relationship was entirely consensual, and criminalizing a failed consensual relationship would be an abuse of law. Both parties have since married others and moved on.
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