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  Source : https://indianexpress.com/ India is one of only 36 countries where this intimate assault is a perfectly legal crime. The law that shields marital rape must be urgently struck down. Written by Anirudh Pratap Singh “When a stranger does it, he doesn’t know me, I don’t know him. He’s not doing it to me as a person, personally. With your husband, it becomes personal. You say, this man knows me. He knows my feelings. He knows me intimately and then to do this to me – it’s such a personal abuse.” ‘License To Rape: Sexual Abuse Of Wives’ by D Finkelhor and K Yllo (1987) Criminal Justice Policy Review Domestic violence in India is an entrenched problem, and it has only been exacerbated in the recent years. About 70 per cent of women in India are victims of domestic violence. National Crime Records Bureau’s (NCRB) ‘Crime in India’ 2019 report was worrisome but not startling. As per the report, in India, a woman is raped every 16 minutes, and every four minutes, she experienc...

  Source : https://theshillongtimes.com/ NEW DELHI:   Eight years after the Nirbhaya case of gang-rape and murder of a physiotherapy student shook the conscience of the nation and led to hanging of four rapists earlier this year, the conviction rate in rape cases still remains abysmal despite stringent anti-rape laws in place. As per the recent National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, the conviction rate for rape cases remained at 27.8 per cent in 2019. Out of a total of 1,62,741 rape cases which went to trial in 2019, the court convicted people in only 4,640 cases. In 2018, however, the rate was 27.2 per cent, down from 32.2 per cent in 2017 and 23.9 per cent the year before that. According to legal experts, one of the reasons why criminals do not get convicted is poor investigation by the police, family pressure on victims, hostility of witnesses and complainants, absence of forensic labs and fast-track courts. Advocate Aparna Bhatt, former member of Delhi’s rape...

  Four men have been charged with the gang-rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in   India , a case that prompted nationwide protests and drew a fresh spotlight on India’s endemic problem of sexual violence. In September in Hathras, a small village in Uttar Pradesh, the 19-year-old woman was working in the fields when she was pounced on by four older men who dragged her to a field, attacked her and then tried to strangle her with her shawl. The charge sheet filed by the central bureau of investigation on Friday confirmed the girl was gang-raped and four men have been charged with her murder. The girl was a Dalit, India’s lowest caste, formerly known as “untouchables”, while her four alleged attackers were from a higher caste. Sexual violence against Dalit women is  regularly used as a tool of oppression  and around 10 Dalit women are raped every day in India. The 19-year-old was discovered by her family bleeding in the field, barely conscious and with her spi...

  Source :- https://www.india.com/ The Hathras was not just one of the worst cases in 2020 but one of the biggest cases of crimes against women in India in a long time. In September 2020, a 20-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped and murdered by four men in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras. This case triggered a massive outrage across the country. The UP Police denied that the victim was cremated without her family’s approval. The case was then transferred to the CBI. While the UP Police denied that the victim was raped, the CBI invoked the gangrape and murder charges against the four accused.

Source : https://www.thehindu.com/ A lorry driver, who was allegedly involved in the rape case of a minor at Yerravankapalli in Nallamada mandal surrendered before the police. He has been remanded to jail. Kadiri Deputy Superintendent of Police S. Bhavya Kishore said that cases under Sections 5, 6 of the POCSO Act-2012 and Sections 448, 376 of IPC were registered against the accused and an investigation was under way. She warned people against visiting the minor girl in the village in the name of consoling her and her family members, saying that it would add to their mental trauma. “People violating this stricture will be booked under acts related to the protection of children’s rights and welfare,” said the DSP and appealed to people to inform the police about any crime against minors that comes to the notice of the general public by dialling 944090xxxx (Circle Inspector) or 944079xxxx (Sub-Inspector). BJP seeks justice Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party Mahila Morcha president...

 Source : https://www.ndtv.com/ The boy who knew the girl had called her to his new workplace in Delhi's GK 1 area where three others were waiting. A 14-year-old girl who worked as a domestic help in South Delhi's Greater Kailash 1 area was allegedly raped by a 17-year-old boy and three others, the police said on Sunday, adding all four suspects have been taken into custody. According to the police, the girl had met the teenage boy at the place where she worked. The boy, who had befriended her before quitting the job around a month ago asked her to visit his new place of work, also in Greater Kailash, where three others were present on Saturday. The boy then raped her in the servant quarters of the house, the girl said, with the help of the others - an 18-year-old, a 20-year-old and a 30-year-old. The police said they received the call about the incident on Sunday and have apprehended all four accused. They have filed a case and are investigating the incident. The Delhi Police...

  PATNA: If the figures released by the  State Crime Records Bureau  (SCRB) are anything to go by, at least nine people are murdered, five robbed and four women raped per day in Bihar. According to the latest data, which is available on the website of SCRB, 2,406 people were murdered in just nine months in the state from January to September this year.  Patna  topped the chart with 159 murders during the period, followed by Gaya (138) and Muzaffarpur (134). Sheohar recorded the lowest incidents of murder, just six, during the period. As far as police ranges are concerned,  Tirhut  was at the top with 294 murders, Magadh (276), Munger (145), Kosi (141) and  Begusarai  (124). Police, however, said majority of murders took place either due to land dispute or personal enmity. Similarly, altogether 1,106 incidents of rape were reported in the state from January to September, which suggested that on an overage, four women are raped per day. Altoget...

Source : https://www.tribuneindia.com/ Law enforcement officers and criminologists are of the view that the real deterrent against crime is certainty and not severity of punishment. Death penalty for rape will not curb this grave crime against women unless there is an improvement in the justice delivery system, removal of institutional prejudices against women, and gender sensitisation of society. Unfortunately, Indian society still remains steeped in a patriarchal culture. THE Maharashtra cabinet recently approved the draft of the Shakti Criminal Law Bill which provides for death penalty for serious offences such as rape and child abuse. The Andhra Pradesh government is also reportedly enacting a law containing a similar provision of death penalty for rape. This brings to the fore the question whether death penalty will act as a deterrent against growing incidence of rape in the country. Will the fear of death scare and deter the rapists? There is no doubt a surge in rape cases across...