Assessing the effect of rape law reform in India using crime statistics and a survey of recent judgments from the Delhi District Courts the author argues that the legislature has failed systematically to address the many injustices experienced by women who allege rape. The Indian Parliament ...
The Judiciary in India is burdened with a lot of work and therefore judgment of the rape cases comes very late. Sometimes it comes so late that either of the parties had died. So, there should be speedy trials in rape cases so that the victim gets justice as it is rightly stated that ...
The Judiciary inIndiais burdened with a lot of work and therefore judgment of the rape cases comes very late. Sometimes it comes so late that either of the parties had died. So, there should be speedy trials in rape cases so that the victim gets justice as it is rightly stated that“Ju...
India's criminal justice system is widely seen to have failed women who are sexually assaulted. One woman is raped every 20 minutes in India, according to government statistics, but the conviction rate is among the lowest in the world and one of the key reasons is lack of proper investigat...
Official statistics show that incidents of rape are increasing in India, although it is unclear how much of the rise is due to more reporting of such cases. Advocates say that the majority of rape cases remain unreported. The case of Asifa Bano in the state of Jammu & Kashmir gained ...
so are the number of women claiming rape on false promises of marriage / Rape on the pretext of marriage. As per the National Crime Records Bureau, an aggregate of 38,947 rape cases were accounted for in India in 2016. In 10,068 cases — about a quarter — the women claimed it was ...
India saw about 39,000 rape cases reported in 2016, a 12% jump over the prior year, according toIndian crime statistics. Children were reported as victims in 42% of the cases. It is hard to say how many of the rape victims were Muslim. What is known, however, is the exhortation by...
In India, rape is the fourth most common crime against women. If one goes by the National Crime Records Bureau statistics, a shocking 93 women are raped in the country each day and a total of 33,707 cases were registered in 2013. ...
People participate in a protest against the rape of an 8-year-old girl and a teenager in Mumbai, India, on Sunday. SD-Agencies THE rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl and the separate rape of a teenager have sparked mass protests across India, with levels of public outrage not seen...
According to India’s National Crime Records Bureau, more than four Dalit women are raped every day, with 2014 statistics saying crime against Dalits rose 19%. In many of the cases, these crimes are committed by perpetrators from an upper caste. “For centuries, the lower caste (has) been...