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The Kerala High Court on Thursday exculpated a man facing rape charges. It said that if a man promises to marry an already married woman and the subsequent physical relationship between them will not attract the provision of rape under Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). A single bench of Justice Kausar Edappagath dismissed a rape case filed by the police in the Kollam district in 2018. The bench observed that if a married woman voluntarily has sex with a man knowing full well that she cannot legally marry him, it can be no rape. According to the prosecution case, the accused sexually assaulted the applicant several times in Australia by falsely promising marriage. She stated in her plea that she agreed to have sex after repeated promises of marriage by the accused. Altho...

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Rape Culture Prevails In Thailand: School Halls Become Hell For Students

Agamapar ChadhaJuly 22, 20220

Nalinrat Thuthubthim was in highschooler when the assault happened. She'd often stay on the premises after school had ended, working on speeches with her teacher for the upcoming competitions. Needing to use the restroom, she asked a faculty to help her lift the shutter on the washroom doorway. Secluded with the teacher, he then proceeded to rape her, holding her around the neck and groping her under her clothes."I froze, I stayed still and wanted to cry. My mind was blank, it froze. My hands and feet were cold," Nalinrat said in an interview in 2021. When she told a female teacher about the attack, the teacher blamed it on what she was wearing and said they showed off her body and were sexually arousing. Nalinrat showed reporters what she wore that night: a drab grey T-shirt and black ...

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Sex Weaponised In Ethiopian Civil War: Everything ‘Fair’ In Love And War?

Agamapar ChadhaJune 24, 20220

Except for the Islamic terrorism and regions where the western intervention took place, Africa is heavily underreported, reflecting the world’s discriminatory outlook on Africa and Africans. Like this, many will be unaware of an ongoing civil war in Ethiopia called the Tigray conflict. Breaking out on 3rd November of 2020 after a schism between the Ethiopian Prime minister Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party and the Tigray’s regional government: Tigray People’s Liberation Front(T.P.L.F). Abiy Ahmed postponed the election on account of the coronavirus. This added more fuel to the fire of the T.P.L.F., which vested all power and had autonomy in Ethiopia before Ahmed’s rise. This power previously held by the Tigray faction was ended. Tigray, in defiance, held their regional election in their are...

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Conversion Therapy in India: A Cure To LGBTQIA+ ‘Disease’ To Appease Cultural Virtue?

Agamapar ChadhaJune 21, 20220

Conversion therapy by the medical profession is an illegal practice to ‘cure’ and covert any sexual orientation of a person to strictly heteronormative. The patient subjugated to these will be ‘cleansed’ from their sexuality which is part of the L.G.B.T.Q.I.A+ section of sexuality. This practice involves physically and psychologically breaking to resolve their ‘abnormal’ tendencies. There are many reasons why this practice continues to prevail in India. From a religious perspective in Islam(14%) and Christianity( 2%), homosexuality is considered a sin. In Indian society, heteronormativity has become a symbol of pride, family honour, and reputation. There is an infusion of heteronormativity with the idea of masculinity and femininity with the underlying aspect of patriarchy in Indian soc...

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Definition Of Rape Should Be Gender Neutral: Kerala High Court

Arpita SarkarJune 2, 20220

The interpretation of rape in the Indian Penal Code should be gender-neutral, according to the Kerala High Court. In a recent divorce case, an old rape allegation was leveled against the father during a question about who the child would be with the parents. The father's counsel said his client had been granted bail in the case. He was falsely accused of having sex with a false promise of marriage. At the time, Justice Mohammad Mustaq said, "Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code (which includes the definition of rape) is not gender-neutral. If a man has sexual relations with a woman with a false promise of marriage, he can be charged with rape. But if a woman does the same thing, there is no way to file a complaint against her. How's that?" A recent ruling by Justice Mustaq reflec...

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Rubbing Male Genitals Over Underpants Is Rape Under Section 375(B): Meghalaya HC

Sonia SolankiMarch 17, 20220

Meghalaya High Court has upheld the decision that "rubbing male genitals even if the female is wearing underpants is rape." The decision is taken under Section 375(b) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The bench led by Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice W Diengdoh rejected the appeal and declares the conviction of a rape accused and his sentence by a trial court in 2018. The bench said, "Even if it be accepted that the accused herein forced his organ into vagina or urethra of the victim, despite the victim wearing her underpants, it would still amount to penetration for the purpose of Section 375(b) of the penal code." HC Views On Penetration The case dates back to 2006 when the accused, Cheerfulson Snaitang, sexually abuses a minor girl on September 23. A week later the famil...

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In Retrospect: The ‘Juvenile’ In Major Gang-Rape Cases

Ananya ChakravartiDecember 16, 20210

The Bombay High Court in November, commuted to life imprisonment, the death penalty awarded to three repeat offenders in connection with the gang-rape of a photo-journalist inside Mumbai's defunct Shakti Mills compound, in 2013. The incident dates back to August 22, 2013. A young photojournalist, who was accompanied by her colleague on assignment, was raped by four men and a minor. The four accused were named and identified by the victim and were help guilty by the Court. The minor was tried separately by the Juvenile Justice Board. It was argued that the acts perpetrated by the three amounted to "devastation of social trust" and invited the indignation of society. These acts itself demonstrate the mental perversion and inconceivable brutality caused by the convicts. It sound...