What’s happening in Ukraine is one of the worst large-scale campaigns of sexual violence in war since Islamic State’s attacks on the Yezidi minority in Iraq in 2014.
HC referred to IPC Section 375 (b) and (c) and said penetration does not have to be complete, dismissing accused’s appeal in 2006 case involving rape of a minor girl.
Justice Chandravanshi stated an exception under Sec 375 of IPC, stating "sexual intercourse/sexual act by a man with his wife, her not being under 18 years of age, is not rape."
During the investigation, it was found that the main accused, who was the priest of the crematorium, had tried to mislead the SIT by claiming he used to get shocks from the water cooler.
Woman had in 2019 accused Ghosi MP Atul Rai of rape, now accuses several police officers of trying to help Rai, posts Facebook live video of self-immolation.
Justice Subodh Abhyankar’s observation came while dismissing bail plea of accused who claimed the complainant had consensual sex with him and it was not a forced relationship.
Accused had raised important legal questions whether rape can be equated to ‘consensual intercourse on the false promise of marriage amounting to the offence of rape’.
Mohit Subhash Chavan, a technician in the Maharashtra State Electric Production Company Ltd, has been accused of raping a girl in 2014, who was a minor then.
We have failed terribly at two important things. One, we are reacting to this issue only emotionally, not logically. And two, we are not asking the right questions.
WhatsApp privacy policy case is among a string of matters involving practices like restrictive platform rules, pricing & billing policies, reflecting India’s tight scrutiny of market dominance.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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