Courts Can't Be Battlegrounds For Failed Relations

QUASHING criminal proceedings initiated against a man accused of raping a woman on a false promise of marriage, the Orissa High Court held that the law does not extend its protection to every broken promise nor does it impose criminality upon every failed relationship.

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Delivering the judgment in such a case, the single judge bench of Justice SK Panigrahi emphasised that quashing the criminal proceedings was necessary to protect the integrity of law and prevent it from being used to litigate personal disappointments or moral conflicts. "The justice system is meant to address genuine crimes, not to serve as a battleground for failed relationships," he observed, calling for scrutiny of automatic criminalisation of failed relationships under the guise of false promise of marriage.