Chandigarh, Feb. 4 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has quashed a rape case registered against an army officer from Punjab, observing that a consensual relationship by itself cannot give rise to criminal liability under the rape law unless the statutory ingredients necessary to constitute the said offence are clearly made out.

".human relationships are dynamic and may change with time. .Merely because consensual relationship does not culminate into marriage due to incompatibility, cannot be forcibly converted into life long relationship," the bench of justice Alok Jain observed.

The criminal case was filed in August 2020 against the officer on the complaint of a woman. She alleged that he (officer) enticed the complainant to enter i...