-The Hindu A man having sex with a woman he intends to marry, with her consent, cannot be said to have committed rape if for some reasons the marriage does not take place, the Supreme Court held on Monday. A vacation Bench of Justices B.S. Chauhan and Dipak Misra said: "Consent may be express or implied, coerced or misguided, obtained willingly or through deceit. Consent is an act of reason, accompanied by...
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Trinamool MP sorry for her comments on Park Street rape
-IANS Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar Wednesday said she was wrong in terming the Park Street Rape case as a "sex deal gone wrong" and apologised to the West Bengal Human Rights Commission, which had summoned her. "Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar Wednesday appeared before the commission and admitted that her remarks about the Park Street Rape case were wrong and insensitive and duly apologised for it," commission joint secretary Sujay Haldar said. The...
More »Village panchayat orders ‘rapist’ to be burnt alive
-The Indian Express Lucknow: The Kusaili village panchayat in Etawah district has announced that they would burn a man allegedly involved in the gangrape of a minor girl, who was forcibly detained and sexually assaulted for about a week. The accused, who belongs to the same village, is absconding. The panchayat was held on Sunday evening after a case of gangrape and illegal detention of the victim was lodged at the Chaubia...
More »CPM rolls up the rope-JP Yadav
-The Telegraph Meet the Merciful Marxists, never mind the Bolsheviks preferred a bullet to the head and Meera Bhattacharjee graced a public platform in Calcutta to seek the death penalty. Prakash Karat today said the CPM had decided to advocate without exception the abolition of death penalty, almost a decade after its Bengal unit led a vociferous campaign to hang teen rapist and killer Dhananjoy Chatterjee. "The central committee has decided that...
More »Despite fast-track courts, rape conviction rate still low -Apurva
-The Indian Express Amid the clamour to establish fast-track courts for Rape cases, the numbers tell a different story in Rajasthan, where such courts were first set up. While the conviction rate in Rape cases has stayed the same and pendency has barely improved, authorities admit that due to hurried trials, a fair share of convictions are overturned in the high court. All Rape cases were transferred to fast-track courts in Rajasthan...
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