Consensual relationship gone sour cannot be called rape later: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on October 30 held that consensual intimacy cannot be retrospectively branded rape after a relationship ends. Justice B.V. Nagarathna flagged a 'worrying trend' of failed relationships being re-examined to find assault. The case from Kerala involved a man accused of repeated rape over a seven-year relationship; the complainant said he hid that he was already married.