The High Court of Karnataka has quashed two criminal cases of “rape and cheating” against a man by stating that the cases were registered on the complaint of a woman, who was in the habit of seeking relationship with men through social media and later registering case against them alleging having sex with her on false promise of marriage.
“If the trial of such cases is permitted to continue, then it would be putting a premium on the activities of the complainant woman and her effort to abuse the process of law over and over,” the court observed.
Justice M. Nagaprasanna passed the order while allowing a petition filed by one Girinath questioning the two separate complaints lodged against him by one Rajeshwari in Bengaluru and Davangere on the same set of charges.
