Many cases of crimes against women go unreported in India due to stigma surrounding sexual violence, as well as a lack of faith in the police. Women’s rights activists say the problem is particularly acute in rural areas, where the community sometimes shames victims of sexual assault and f...
Of 24,206 Rape Cases in India, 7% in StateKulkarni, Dhaval
According to India’s National Crime Records Bureau, a total of 31,516 rape cases were recorded in 2022, an average of 86 cases per day. And experts warn that the number of cases recorded are just a small fraction of what may be the real number, in a deeply patriarchal country where s...
The colonial government, vide amendment to the Age of Consent Act, 1861 raised the age of consent from ten to twelve years in both marital and extra-marital cases, with the intention of protecting female children from such immature cohabitation and prostitution in the future. However, when the...
1. India: Life imprisonment to death sentence After the Anti Rape Bill of April 2013, culprits are liable to life imprisonment (which is actually 14 years), imprisonment for entire life and even the death sentence in the rarest of rare cases. The amendment also expanded to include a lot ...
A lot of people imagine and believe that in Rape cases the burden of proof is on the accused and the statement of the girl is taken as Gospel’s truth. This kind of beliefs were prevalent about 498A cases also in the past.
This scoping review aimed to highlight the profile of people raped, those who committed the rape within the health facilities, and the legal actions taken to resolved cases. Methods Media-reported data on incidents of rape in healthcare settings were collected. The search was conducted in May ...
the alleged brutal gang rape and torture of a young woman that included her being paraded through the streets of Dehli. Also in 2022, a police officer in India was arrested after beingaccused of rapinga 13-year-old girl who went to his station to report she had been gang-raped.In ...
In 2012, the gang rape and killing of a 23-year-old student on a New Delhi bus galvanized massive protests across India. It inspired lawmakers to order harsher penalties for such crimes, as well as the creation of fast-track courts dedicated to rape cases. The go...
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