NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has quashed rape charges against a man accused by a 30-year-old woman of sexually exploiting her under the pretext of marriage, finding her intent to be “manipulative” and her allegations “vindictive.” A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta allowed the man's plea to quash FIRs filed by Cyberabad police in 2022, observing that the relationship was consensual and that the woman exhibited troubling behavior that cast serious doubt on her claims. Justice Mehta, writing the judgment, said the allegations were “a bundle of lies full of fabricated and malicious claims.” Continuing the case, he added, would be “a gross abuse of the legal process.” The man told the court he ended the relationship due to the woman’s “aggressive sexual behavior, obsessive nature, and manipulative and vindictive tendencies.” The court found support for these claims in her social media chats, where she used the alias ‘Muffin.’ The chats revealed a pattern. The woman admitted to being manipulative and expressed interest in targeting a "green card holder." She boasted about her ability to "trap the next one," adding that she would "irritate her victims until they dump her," allowing her to move on freely. The court also noted that the woman had previously filed a similar complaint in 2021 against a professor at Osmania University, where she was a student. Relying on the content of the chats and her conduct, the bench concluded that the woman had falsely implicated the man and quashed the criminal proceedings against him.