This Act seeks to protect minors (below 18) from sexual exploitation, assault, abuse, prostitution, pornography, stripping, etc. It hereby includes penovaginal intercourse, but also other body party and external objects. Further also penalties and sentences are clearly defined, which are also applicable to the security forces and the police. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9wqvs5QNCItaVd2eXRpSWM0Y1k/edit?usp=sharing
Sushilkumar Shinde, the Home Minister, made a statement with the details of the incident and arrest of the driver and accused Ram Singh and other three accused. He reported that all roads in Delhi were patrolled by PCR vans with higher frequency on roads identified as used by women commuting from work. Motorcycle patrols and […]
Vrinda Grover first criticizes that women’s groups were not further included in the work on the report. However, she goes on with a long list of issues like harassment of women at their workplace, the inclusion of marital rape, the expansion of definition of sexual assault, which is more gender neutral, the keeping of the […]
The student association addresses problems of the existing definition of penetrative sexual assault; the characterization of free consent and the issue of passive submission. Also they focus on definitions of particular terms in the context of sexual assault; the urgent need to rework the law relating to non-penetrative sexual offences; and sentencing and punishment, covering […]
The Hazard Center demands for encompassing legal and police reforms. Especially, identity-based asexual violence is addressed here. Moreover, also aggravated sexual violence and acid attacks are hereby stressed and better legal persecution. In terms of evidence, neither the two-finger test, nor the morality of the victim should be included according to the center. However, besides […]
Here the committee deals with the quality of government agencies, like the police, in order to provide general security. Hereby, the specific role of women’s protection is stressed and standardized procedures for the police are suggested. However, besides that, also the better enforcement of already existing laws is demanded. Last, but not least, an improved […]
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
Two children have been abducted in Delhi. While only the girl was raped, both the boy and the girl have been killed. It is assumed that the police did not act accurately and that the killing of the children could have been avoided, if the police officers would have acted immediately and faster. State_vs_Jasbir_Singh_@_Billa_And_Kuljeet_…_on_16_November,_1979
Madhukar Narayan Mardikar, a Police Inspector in Maharashtra State visited the hutment of a woman called Banubi in uniform and demanded to have sexual intercourse with her. Although she refused, he tried unsuccessfully to have her by force. Banubi filed a complain, but the High Court decided since Banubi is an ‘unchaste woman by having […]
Read the Recommendations of the Justice Verma Committee Click the link above for the full report, or the ones below for individual chapters: Chapter 3 – Rape and Sexual Assault Chapter 9 – Sentencing and Punishment Chapter 11 – Medico-legal Examination of the Victim Chapter 12 – Police Reforms […]