Bengaluru, May 29 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted interim bail to a 23-year-old social media influencer accused of raping a 40-year-old woman after he had spent nine months in jail without charges being framed in the case.

A bench of justices BV Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma questioned the Delhi Police's decision to invoke rape charges in the case, noting that the woman was an adult who had voluntarily accompanied the accused on outstation trips on multiple occasions.

"A single hand can't clap. On what basis have you filed a case under Section 376 of IPC? She is not a baby. The woman is 40 years old. They have gone together to Jammu," the bench observed.

"Why have you invoked 376? This lady goes to Jammu seven times an...