Karnataka High Court quashes rape case against man booked on Bumble-date’s complaint

The Karnataka High Court quashed an FIR against a 23-year-old man following a complaint by a woman he met on the dating app Bumble, who alleged that he had sex without her ongoing consent. The court found from chat logs and the relationship background that the encounter was consensual and held that converting a consensual relationship into a rape prosecution would amount to abuse of process. The judgement engages modern dynamics of digital dating, consent jurisprudence and evidentiary standards in sexual offence cases. It signals caution against litigating consensual adult relationships as criminal offences absent compelling evidence of coercion or deceit.