The PVCHR is mainly focused on the problem of patriarchal attitudes, which are reinforced by caste, communal and class inequalities or perpetrated by the state. Here, there is a potential for sexual violence inflicted as a part of an assault by a dominant community as in a caste attack or communal riot; or when sexual […]
The People’s Union for Civil Liberties addresses the fact that only law and punishment will not lead to an improved situation with regard to women’s safety. Hereby, they especially the reject the imposition of the death penalty and chemical castration. Moreover, structural issues need to be discussed and the overall definition of sexual assault needs […]
The CPI (Marxist) demands for the inclusion of identity-based sexual violence, child violence, gang-rape and custodial sexual violence as aggravated sexual assault. The maximum penalty should be life imprisonment. Further they demand for the implementation of fast track trials and better rehabilitation possibilities. Also the party asks for a separate clause for acid attacks. For […]
The Indian Law Commission released in 2000 a report on a review of the Rape Laws. This was initiated by the petitioner ‘Sakshi’, an organization interested in women’s issues. The paper focuses on the need to review the rape laws in the light of increased incidents of custodial rape and crime of sexual abuse against […]
In 1994 the Indian Law Commission published the 152nd on Custodial Crime. While not being explicitly focused on gender-based issues, it is still discussing certain aspects, which are especially important to specific gender groups. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9wqvs5QNCItV1ludFgzOEJNWTA/edit
In 1972, a tribal girl of 14-16 years, stated she was rape by two police officers in Maharashtra, India. After a two-finger-test and other evidence it was, however, declared that the intercourse must have been consensual and there were no sentences imposed on the police officers. Tuka_Ram_And_Anr_vs_State_Of_Maharashtra_on_15_September,_1978-1
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