New Delhi, Feb. 6 -- Flagging a troubling trend, the Supreme Court on Thursday said that invoking rape charges in the aftermath of failed consensual relationships not only amounts to a misuse of the criminal justice machinery but is also a matter of "profound concern" for a judiciary already weighed down by heavy pendency. A bench of justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan held that not every breach of a promise to marry amounts to rape, underlining that the penal offence of rape is made out only where the promise of marriage was made solely to obtain sexual consent, without any intention of fulfilling it from the very inception, and where such a false promise had a direct bearing on the woman's consent. Quashing criminal proceedings agains...