New Delhi, June 8 -- The Supreme Court has ruled that a consensual physical relationship between unmarried adults cannot, by itself, be a ground to question an individual's character, while granting relief to a Telangana police constable recruit whose appointment was denied over allegations linked to a failed relationship.

A bench of Justices Manmohan and Manoj Misra observed that not every romantic relationship culminates in marriage, and the mere fact that a relationship ends without marriage cannot lead to the presumption that one party deceived the other.

It allowed Gajula Thirupathi's appeal and revived a Telangana High Court order directing reconsideration of his appointment as a Stipendiary Cadet Trainee Police Constable (SCTPC)....