New Delhi, Sept. 10 -- Allowing failed intimate relationships to be converted into rape cases is against the constitutional vision of justice and undermines the true spirit of laws governing sexual offences, the Delhi high court has said, while quashing a rape case filed by a 24-year-old woman.

A bench of justice Swarana Kanta Sharma in her September 3 verdict, released on Monday, observed that the law governing the offence of rape is intended to punish those who exploit women by force or deception against their will and is not designed as a tool to be misused in situations where two consenting adults, fully aware of their choices and consequences, later part ways.

In the present case, the woman had filed a rape case last year alleging ...