PRAYAGRAJ, April 18 -- The Allahabad high court on Thursday granted bail to a 42-year-old man accused of raping a 25-year-old woman, noting that the FIR was lodged after several months and seemed to arise more from an "emotional aftermath" of their failed relationship rather than from any bona fide grievance of criminal wrongdoing.
"The prevalence of transient and uncommitted relationships, often formed and dissolved at will, raises critical questions about individual responsibility and the misuse of legal provisions, particularly in the aftermath of failed intimate relationships," justice Krishan Pahal observed in his order dated April 9, which was made public on Thursday.
Justice Pahal, while allowing the bail application of the accused...