The appellant and the complainant met via a matrimonial website and mutually agreed to marry, even signing an agreement in the presence of police. However, the appellant later withdrew from the arrangement, prompting the complainant to file two FIRs. The first alleged cheating and fraud under Sections 417 and 420 IPC. The second accused the appellant of rape under Section 376(2)(n) IPC and caste-based atrocity under the SC/ST (POA) Act. After the High Court declined to quash the second FIR, the appellant approached the Supreme Court. The Court quashed both FIRs, terming them an abuse of the legal process and a miscarriage of justice.