The judgment delivered by Delhi High Court’s Justice Ashutosh Kumar in the Mahmood Farooqui case sparked a fresh debate on consent on Monday. Farooqui, the Peepli Live co-director, was given the benefit of doubt and acquitted of rape charges.

Farooqui had earlier been convicted on 4 August 2016 of raping a 30-year-old American researcher in his south Delhi residence in March 2015. The basis of the judgment presented by Justice Kumar was: