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Rape in India vis-a-vis other countries

Today India has the world's third biggest GDP in PPP terms--ahead of Japan and Germany. Does that mean that India is more prosperous than Japan, Germany, the UK, France, Italy, Switzerland ...? No, not at all. In per capita terms it is still a distant no.140 among the nations of the world, and per capita income is the real indicator. India's total economy is no.3 only because it is the world's second most populous nation, with 1.2 billion citizens.

Similarly, India has the second highest number of rapes: behind, of all countries, the USA which has only around a quarter of India's population. Does that mean that India is more unsafe than the countries with fewer rapes? No. In per capita terms it is near the middle ranks of the roughly 200 nations of the world. It is only because of India's absolute size that the total number of rapes is large. In per capita terms it is safer than the USA, most EU nations or even Japan. The likelihood of getting raped in India is lower than in these countries.

South Asia is the third safest region in the world. See below.

In absolute numbers

GlobalPost: India a distant no. 2 to the USA

GlobalPost

In absolute terms India has the second highest number of reported rapes in the world (around 22,000) compared to the USA's "more than 80,000 cases of rape reported to the police from 2004 to 2010," according to GlobalPost. However, it adds, " But the US Justice Department estimates 300,000 American women are raped every year, and the Centers for Disease Control puts the number much higher at 1.3 million."

That is why estimates differ for most countries.

GlobalPost further states, " When looking at reported rape cases per capita, Australia, Botswana and Lesotho rank highest. But tallying sheer totals, Europe and the Americas consistently top the charts."

Annual statistics

See Rapes in India: annual statistics 2004 onwards

Rapes in per capita terms

India not in NationMaster's Worst 50

NationMaster

NationMaster's list of the 50 countries with the highest number of rapes per 1,000 of population in 2008 (in some cases, 2009) is as follows. It does not include India in the Top 50.

1 Lesotho 2 New Zealand 3 Belgium 4 Iceland 5 Norway 6 Israel 7 Finland 8 Chile 9 Mongolia 10 Ireland 11 Kazakhstan 12 Estonia 13 Luxembourg 14 Denmark 15 Germany 16 Argentina 17 Czech Republic 18 Mauritius 19 Lithuania 19 Kyrgyzstan 21 Moldova 22 Russia 23 Slovenia 24 Hungary 24 Romania 24 Poland 27 Latvia 28 Oman 29 Croatia 30 Belarus 30 Morocco 32 Slovakia 33 Bulgaria 34 Portugal 34 Bahrain 34 Liechtenstein 37 Malta 37 Philippines 39 Cameroon 39 Cyprus 41 Sierra Leone 42 Greece 43 Kenya 44 Canada 45 Japan 46 Maldives 47 Guinea 48 Azerbaijan 49 Armenia 50 Egypt

India not among HEUNI's worst 28 countries; South Asia is third safest

HEUNI

HEUNI took statistics from various 21st century years. Its list of the 28 countries with the highest incidence of rape is as follows. It does not include India:

Mexico (worst);

Republic of Korea

Mongolia

Namibia

Israel

Belize

France

Iceland

Norway

Scotland

El Salvador

Peru

Papua New Guinea

Panama

England and Wales

Northern Ireland

Belgium

Barbados

Nicaragua

United States of America

New Zealand

Zimbabwe

Sweden

Suriname

Jamaica

Canada

Swaziland

Australia had the lowest incidence of rape in this list of the world's 28 worst. Thus if Mexico was the worst, Australia was no. 28 from the bottom.

HEUNI's ranking for the best (least rape-prone in per capita terms) and worst regions of the world is:

Central Asia and Transcaucasian countries (best); Near and Middle East/ South West Asia; South Asia (third best); North Africa; Southeast Europe; East and South East Asia; East Africa; East Europe; West & Central Europe; Latin America and Caribbean; Oceania; Southern Africa; North America (worst).

Incidence of rape in UK, USA 1,500% higher than in India

614.4 million Women in India ensure safety for women tourists

TravelAndTourWorld Tuesday, August 27, 2013

India is one of the largest populated countries in the world with a population of over 1.27 billion people. With nearly half of her population being women, the country has one of the largest woman populations in the world at around 614.4 million.

According to the NCRB [India’s National Crime Records Bureau], 24,923 rape cases were reported countrywide in 2012 in India. A shocking number, definitely, isn’t that a trend worldwide? Are not women being assaulted all over the world? Actually women are safe in India just like they are in any other part of the world….maybe more so if statistics are to be believed…

Countries like South Africa lead in crimes against women.

Of every 100,000 people

132.4 women are raped in South Africa, while

the number is 63.5 for Sweden and

28.8 for UK.

USA also has a figure of 27.3,

Australia 28.6 and

New Zealand 25.8. Compared to them

India has a figure of 1.8

Do we infer from all these incidents that these places are unsafe for visitation by women?…

Women tourists are travelling to remote Indian villages regularly and they return with memorable and good experiences. A few cases do not mar the entire nation.

Every incidence of violence or rape reported is taken up with strict action by the law enforcement agencies of India and the assailant are subjected to adequate punishment just like it happens anywhere else in the world….

The Lancet: India and Bangladesh safest

1 in 14 girls is sexually assaulted’

Complete article: The Lancet

Summary: by news agencies

London: New research to be published on Wednesday by the medical journal The Lancet on sexual violence shows India and Bangladesh have far lesser cases of rape and assault on women than developed countries like New Zealand or Australia. Worldwide, one in 14 women (7.2%) aged 15 years or less has been sexually assaulted at least once in their lives.

The Lancet looking at the prevalence of non-partner sexual violence in 56 countries found that countries with the highest rates of sexual violence are those in central sub-Saharan Africa (21%; DR Congo), southern sub-Saharan Africa (17.4%; Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe) and Australasia (16.4%; New Zealand and Australia). Countries in North Africa/Middle East (4.5%; Turkey) & south Asia (3.3%; India, Bangladesh) reported the lowest rates.

USA: 20% women been raped

USA Today

Nearly one in five women -- up to 22 million people -- have been raped in their lifetime, according to a report issued Wednesday by the White House Council on Women and Girls.

President Obama said he has assigned a task force to address especially serious problems on college campuses where -- again -- one in five women reports being a victim of a sexual assault..

The report cited "the dynamics of college life" as a factor, noting that many victims are "are abused while they're drunk, under the influence of drugs, passed out, or otherwise incapacitated."

This epidemic of sexual assaults hurts all Americans, Obama said as he pushed new efforts to combat these crimes he called an affront to "basic decency and humanity."

The commission also recommended improved law enforcement -- including higher arrest, prosecution, and conviction rates -- as well as changes in a culture that too often turns away from the problem.

Citing government data, the report from the White House Council on Women and Girls says that 1 in 71 men -- nearly 1.6 million -- have been raped. Nearly 98% of assailants are men. Repeat attacks are common.

While women of all races are targeted, some groups are more targeted than others: 33.5% of multiracial women have been raped, according to the report, as have 27% of American Indian and Alaska Native women, 15% of Hispanic, 22% of black and 19% of white women.

Most victims are young. The report said nearly half the women who survived were raped before they were 18; more than one-quarter of male survivors suffered attacks before the age of ten.

EU: 5% woman raped; 32% experienced physical/ sexual violence

Violence against women: One-third of EU women affected – survey

By Bethany Bell BBC News, Vienna

BBC 5 March 2014

About a third of all women in the EU have experienced either physical or sexual violence since the age of 15, according to a survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.

That corresponds to 62 million women, the survey says.

It is said to be the biggest survey conducted on the subject, and is based on interviews with 42,000 women.

It found that "one in 10 women has experienced some form of sexual violence since the age of 15, and one in 20 has been raped".

The survey noted that 22% had suffered from physical or sexual violence by a partner, but that 67% did not report the most serious incidents of domestic violence to the police.

About 18% of women said they had been the victims of stalking since the age of 15, and 55% said they had been sexually harassed, often in the workplace, the survey found.

The countries where women reported the highest number of incidences of physical and sexual violence were

• Denmark (52%), Finland (47%) and Sweden (46%), states that are often commended for gender equality. • • The UK and France reported the 5th highest number with 44% • • The lowest incidences of violence were reported in Poland with 19%. •

Wikipedia figures: India safer than most countries

According to Wikipedia the probability of rape (per 100,000 of population):

In 2004 was, India 1.6; Japan 1.7; Canada 1.8; Republic of Korea 13.5; Denmark 10.4; the UK 26.4; and the USA 32.3

By 2010, India’s record had worsened to 1.8; and UK to 28.8. Japan’s record improved to 1.0; Denmark’s to 6.4 (2009); and USA’s to 27.3.

Wikipedia

Wikipedia, using regional groupings, lists India at no. 56, behind

41 Canada; 42 USA; 47 Hong Kong; 48 Japan; 50 Korea; 52 the Philippines; 53 Singapore; 54 Thailand; and 55 Bangladesh.

Maldives 57; Nepal 58 and Sri Lanka 59, follow. (Note: Wikipedia’s list seems to be region-wise, rather than according to the absolute or relative number of rapes.)

‘Stranger rape': in India and other countries

(Rapes committed by men who were strangers to the victim) The Times of India

‘Stranger rape’ goes [up from 2%] to over 10% [in India]

Rukmini Shrinivasan TIG 2013/06/15

'Stranger rapes': Rapes committed by men who were strangers to the victim

New Delhi: Was 2012 the most dangerous year for women in the capital in the recent past? One statistic would seem to suggest so: the proportion of rapes committed by men who were strangers to the victim rose above 2% for the first time in five years to cross 10%.

‘Stranger rape’ of the type that occurred in Delhi on December 16 last year tends to form the basis for women’s perceptions of public safety, but is relatively rare. Rape in India, as in the rest of the world, remains overwhelmingly a crime committed by persons known to the victim. Atthe all-India level,lessthan 2% – 453 in all — of the nearly 25,000 rapes registered during the year 2012 were committed by strangers, data released on Wednesday by the National Crime Records Bureau show. In Madhya Pradesh, the state that consistently records the largest number of rapes, all of the 3,425 assaultswereby persons known to the victim.

In Delhi too, the proportion of stranger rapes has hovered close to the 2% mark over the last five years. However 2012 NCRB data for Delhi show that 63 of the 585 rapes that were committed in 2012, or nearly 11%,wereby strangers to the victim.

While data for Delhi have been stable over the previous years, large swings between years for a few other cities raise some doubts over the accuracy of NCRB data. Bangalore is the most extreme example of this: the proportion of ‘stranger rapes’ in the southern city swung from 77% to 0% between two consecutive years, 2009 and 2010. Karnataka’s crime statistics chief hadearlier toldTOIthat it was probably a problem with the numbers. “In Bangalore and Karnataka, as in the rest of the country, rape by strangers is a very small part of total rapes,’ Praveen Sood, additional DGP, Karnataka State Crime Records Bureau, had told TOI. A spokesperson for the Delhi police said he could not comment without the exact numbers in front of him.

It’s too soon to draw conclusions based on one year’s data, agreedKalpana Vishwanath of the Delhi-based women’s rights organization Jagori. “It’s undoubtedly a fact that there is crime against women, but there also seems to be some slight increase in the last six months. There is greater family and community supportto girlswhowantto speak out, and a little less of blaming the victim,” Vishwanath said.

Victims of rape also tend to be younger in cities than in the rest of the India, more so in Delhi. In the cities for which NCRB provides data, justover half the rape victims were aged 18 or less. The corresponding all-India figure was just 36.5%. In Delhi, 329 of the 585 victimes, or about 56.2% were aged 18 or less.

Worldwide: 31% of female victims were raped by a stranger

Causes.com

According to the U.S. Department of Justice: (All statistics are taken from: Violenceagainst Women, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Justice, 1994.)

One of every four rapes take place in a public area or in a parking garage.

31% of female victims reported that the offender was a stranger.

Statistics: India

Rapes in India's 5 biggest cities

More rapes in Delhi in 2012 than 4 metros put together

Dwaipayan Ghosh TNN 2013/06/14

The Times of India

Rapes in India: 2012 statistics

New Delhi: Delhi’s shame continues. The National Crime Records Bureau’s report for 2012 iterates through statistics what every woman in the city knows by experience — that it remains the most unsafe for women among 88 important cities of India.

With 5,959 cases of crime against women registered last year, Delhi accounted for a staggering 14.88% of all women-related crimes reported from these 88 cities. No other city even came close to matching Delhi’s notorious record.

Bangalore was a distant second, with a share of 6.18% of all crimes against women in urban India. Next came Kolkata (5.66%) and then Mumbai (4.86%).

No crime reveals Delhi’s violence towards women better than rape. The number of rapes in the capital last year (706) was more than those reported in four other metros — Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore and Chennai (484) — put together. The staggeringly high figure can’t be explained by the capital’s sprawl. For, the female population of Delhi is 75.76 lakh, lower than Mumbai (85.20 lakh) and not much higher than Kolkata (67.93 lakh).

Rapes rise 200% in Kolkata in 5 years [2008-13]

Dwaipayan Ghosh, TNN | Sep 29, 2013

The Times of India

KOLKATA: The City of 'bhoi' is indeed living its worst nightmare. The number of rapes has almost doubled in the city since 2008 and molestation tripled, says the latest data of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). The last NCRB study had ranked Bengal No. 1 in crimes against women.

Cruelty towards women has seen a 200% increase - from 405 in 2008 to 865 in 2012 - giving the city the ignominy of topping cases under Section 498A IPC. Even dowry death, which was on the decline in the late Nineties in Bengal, has seen a slight increase in Kolkata.

In 2008, 35 rape cases were reported in Kolkata, which rose to 42 the next year. Although it dropped sharply to 32 in 2010, the very next year it shot up to 42, and 2012 was the worst year with 68 rapes cases registered in the city.

Molestation cases increased even more alarmingly, from 81 in 2008 to 133 in 2010. And again, 2012 was the worst year, with 377 molestation incidents reported.

Some incidents this month itself raises a number of questions. A Class-X student of a leading south Kolkata school was molested while returning home in the Topsia-Tiljala area. A couple of days later, a young girl was raped in the same area. A woman returning home with her fiance was molested by bike-borne men near AJC Bose Road flyover and two female employees of an eatery in China Town were kidnapped inside a taxi and molested by three men.

Earlier, a 26-year-old woman was kidnapped and raped inside a moving car and a Frenchwoman was molested by a bike gang in the Lake Gardens area.

Child rapes/ Sexual assault on children

‘336% spurt in child rape cases’

By TIMES NEWS NETWORK, The Times of India , 22 April 2013 The Times of India

Even as the national Capital protests against the heinous nature of the five-year-old child’s rape, an independent report, based on National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) figures, shows that India is no country for children.

The report says a total of 48,338 child rape cases was recorded between 2001 and 2011, and the nation saw an increase of 336% of such cases from 2001 (2,113) to 2011 (7,112).

The report by the Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR), however, warns that this is only the “tip of the iceberg” as the large majority of child rape cases are not reported to police while children regularly become victims of other forms of sexual assault too. Madhya Pradesh recorded the highest number of child rape cases with 9,465 cases between 2001 and 2011, followed by Maharashtra (6,868), Uttar Pradesh (5,949) and Andhra Pradesh (3,977). Delhi, which reported 2,909 cases, ranked sixth on the list.

The report, “India’s Hell Holes: Child Sexual Assault in Juvenile Justice Homes”, which has been submitted to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, says that many of the cases take place in juvenile homes.

“It will not be an understatement to state that juvenile justice homes, established to provide care and protection as well as reintegration, rehabilitation and restoration of the juveniles in conflict with law and children in need of care and protection, have become India’s hell holes where inmates are subjected to sexual assault and exploitation, torture and ill-treatment apart from being forced to live in inhuman conditions. The girls remain the most vulnerable. It matters little whether the juvenile justice homes are situated in Delhi or in mofussil towns,” said Suhas Chakma, director, ACHR.

The 56-page report also highlights 39 cases of systematic and often repeated sexual assault on children in juvenile justice homes. Out of the 39 cases, 11 were reported from governmentrun juvenile justice homes, while in one case a CWC member was accused of sexual harassment during counselling sessions.

The remaining 27 cases were reported from private or NGO-run juvenile justice homes.

Child rape: conviction rate

In 2013, trial completed in just 15% child rape cases

Abhinav Garg New Delhi:

The Times of India Jul 22 2014

Conviction Rate Was A Mere 31%

Only 15.3% of all cases relating to sexual offences against children in 2013 saw completion of trials in that year and the conviction rate for such crimes was a low 31.5%, latest figures released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) reveal.

Nearly 85% cases of child rape continue to be pending in various courts across India, according to the report.

Extreme reluctance of parents to bring their victimized children to courts, inability to ensure their anonymity and conflicting testimonies by kids scarred by assault are some of the primary reasons why sex crime cases against children tend to linger on.

But the biggest reason according to experts, including lawyers, activists and child counsellors is the tendency of the government to enact special laws for which it is unable to allocate required resources to enable implementation by the judiciary .

For instance, despite bringing in a “stringent“ law such as Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO), there has been a jump in sex crimes against children. And, most district court complexes across the country are yet to get a dedicated sessions court for POCSO or independent special public prosecutors as envisaged under the Act that came into force in November 2012. Section 28 of the Act makes it mandatory for the state government to establish “a court of session to be special court in every district“ while section 32 mandates appointment of “special public prosecutors“.

Child rights lawyer Anant Asthana blamed the Centre and states for high pendency of sex crime trials in courts.

“The main reason is that the government doesn't invest in improving the justice delivery system,“ he said. “Supreme Court has said in its report on national court management system that government legislates but doesn't provide financial allocation. If there is no allocation how can magistrates be appointed, courtrooms built and prosecutors recruited?“

Protect identity in child rape: HC

The Times of India

Apr 03 201

The Delhi high court expressed concern over identity of child survivors of sexual offences being disclosed. HC has directed trial courts and hospitals to ensure that guidelines laid down by it are scrupulously followed in all cases relating to children.The court said it is the duty of the hospital where a child is admitted for treatment to ensure that no details of the survivor are divulged.

Abench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said the norms must be adhered to since it deals with keeping the identity of the child confidential unless permitted by the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) or Child Welfare Committee (CWC).The guidelines, prepared by a committee set up by the high court, also provide for creation of probe panels in courts and hospitals in case of such lapses.

In its latest directive, the court said that “the guidelines framed by the committee appointed by this court and as approved by this court should be implemented with immediate effect. The guidelines must be circulated in all courts and hospitals of the national capital, so that they are implemented.“

The bench said that this should be done before July 15.

The court's direction came after it was informed that the guidelines were not being implemented, as authorities were found to be disclosing the name and identity of the children in need of care and protection.

The court was hearing a petition, filed by lawyer Anant Asthana, questioning the disclosure of identity of a 15-year-old girl who had brought a two-year-old baby to AIIMS in January 2012.

The child was admitted with severe head injury , both arms broken, bite marks all over her body and her cheeks branded with hot iron.

Is rape under-reported (or over-reported) in India?

Delhi: Unprecedented surge in filing of false rape cases

False cases behind Delhi's tag of rape capital: Court

PTI | Jul 27, 2013

The Times of India

The court said that after the Delhi gang rape [of December 16, 2012], it led to an atmosphere where "the mere statement of a lady that she has been raped, came to be taken as the gospel truth, on the basis of which the accused was arrested and chargesheeted".

Madras: 48% cases are false: HC

Increase in fake harassment cases against men a concern: Madras HC

A Subramani The Times of India Dec 26 2014

`Wronged' women may lie but numbers don't. The Madras high court has reeled out statistics and expressed concern at the rising incidence of false cases against men on charges of rape, dowry death and harassment of women.

Justice S Nagamuthu, quoting National Crime Records Bureau data, said on Monday , “So far as crimes against women are concerned, statistics show that in rape, dowry de ath, harassment of married women and outraging modesty of women, percentage of false cases are 7.4%, 6.6%, 9.6% and 5.8% respectively“

Empathizing with men burdened with such cases, the judge said, “Those implicated in these false cases suffer in terms of humiliation, loss of money , loss of working hours, loss of mental peace and at last loss of employment as well. Most of the accused implicated in these false cases hail from poor strata of the society for whom some hearts bleed.“ Nagamuthu pointed out that in 2000, only 7.55% of all cases registered in the country were false. Citing the latest report on crime in India for the year 2012, he said the percentage of false cases was a staggering 48%.

Delhi: Tougher rape law leading to increase in false cases?

Sana Shakil,TNN | Feb 22, 2014

The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Fears have been expressed that strengthening of the law against sexual offenses after the Nirbhaya case has also led to an increase in false cases. Now, there's some evidence to support this claim. Statistics on the disposal of rape cases in Delhi's trial courts show a sharp increase in the acquittal rate after the infamous December 16, 2012, gang-rape.

While in 2012, the acquittal rate in rape cases was 46%, in the first eight months of 2013 (for which exact figures are available) it shot up to 75%. Sources said acquittals remain high this year as well, accounting for around 70% of the cases.

Legal experts say the high acquittal rates are because of a spurt in the number of false rape cases being filed. The observations of judges in acquittal cases also bear this out.

"This is an unfortunate trend. In many cases, women come up with the plea that they had registered the case out of anger and due to misunderstanding," said additional public prosecutor A T Ansari, one of the main prosecutors in the Nirbhaya case. A senior woman lawyer, who did not wish to be named, said, "It's sad but true. Registration of false cases is rampant and hence, the alarming acquittal rate. The new law is being misused because of the widened definition of rape."

Experts feel the amended law is "widely-worded" and "ambiguous" in parts and lends itself to misuse. "In around 90% of acquittal cases, the victim turns hostile. Mostly, it turns out to be a case of a relationship gone bad. The sex is consensual but the victim claims that the consent was given on account of promise of marriage," said a senior public prosecutor on condition of anonymity.

Other reasons for registering false cases seem to range from extortion, recovery of dues, property disputes and extra-marital affairs.

Laws dealing with sexual offences against women were strengthened post Nirbhaya incident to provide speedy justice and greater security to women. Ironically, the conviction rates were higher when the laws were less stern.

Explaining how the new laws were more vulnerable to misuse, a former senior prosecutor said the consent of the victim, which had earlier been a debatable issue among judges, was settled with a clarification in Section 375 of IPC. It specified that absence of physical resistance cannot be construed as consent. "I feel there should have been an exception to the false promise of marriage concept because that is the excuse which is mostly taken up by women to register false cases even though the sex was consensual," the senior lawyer said.

Though there is a provision to prosecute people for perjury if they lie in court, its rarely exercised to prosecute women in these false cases. "The courts generally don't use this discretion because they don't want genuine victims to be wary of approaching courts for justice," said senior advocate Aman Lekhi.

Worried over the disturbing trend of false complaints, even fast track courts trying cases of sexual offenses have been raising concerns over the matter. In July last year, while acquitting a 75-year-old man of the charges of raping his maid, a fast track court observed that the capital has earned the notoriety of India's rape capital because of the increase in false rape cases being registered in the city. The alleged victim in this case had admitted that she registered the case because she wanted to usurp the accused's property.

In January this year, additional sessions judge Virender Bhat expressed the need for empowering courts to order compensation for persons who get implicated in false cases. The judge, while acquitting a man of rape charges registered by a married woman in March 2013, remarked it was "a voluntary liaison" which was turned into a rape charge after the woman's husband pressured her into lodging a complaint.

Recently, another fast track court judge, ASJ (Ms.) Nivedita Anil Sharma observed that there was a trend of registering false complaints by women who wanted to save themselves embarrassment after an extra-marital affair.

’Women lodging false rape cases should be punished’

Women lodging false rape cases should be punished: Court

PTI | Jan 28, 2015

Time has come for courts to deal firmly with women filing false rape complaints as they are tormentors warranting punishment, a Delhi court has said.

False rape cases makes the crime graph shoot up, play havoc with the crime statistics and tend to trivialize the offence of rape and, "no sooner that the news of a person having been accused of rape spreads in the society, he is looked down upon by all and sundry," it observed.

While the act of rape causes intense emotional distress and immense humiliation to the victim, at the same time one cannot lose sight of the fact that false implication in a rape case causes equal humiliation, disgrace and mental agony to the accused, the court further said.

"He (rape accused) as well as his family is ostracised from the mainstream. He is humiliated and ridiculed everywhere. Even his honourable acquittal by the court is not taken note of and does little to salvage his lost honour and dignity. He has to live with the trauma of having been a rape accused throughout his life," Additional sessions judge Virender Bhat said.

The court made the remarks while directing lodging of a complaint against a woman who had registered a false rape case against a Delhi businessman at the behest of someone who wanted to settle scores with him.

"This court would be failing in its duty if appropriate proceedings are not initiated against the prosecutrix (woman) for giving false evidence against the accused," it said.

Indpaedia's take

After the Nirbhaya/ Damini rape of Dec 2012 the stigma attached to having been raped suddenly lessened at least vis-a-vis the stigma attached to having had consensual sex outside marriage, if not in absolute terms as well. This, too, explains the surge in filing of false rape cases since Dec. 2012. Please see the cases mentioned below.)

Failed live-in relationships later called rape

Failed live-in relationships account for 21.6% of Gurgaon rape complaints

It gets knotty when they don't tie the knot

Sanjay Yadav, TNN | Jul 24, 2013

The Times of India

GURGAON: The city is witnessing the emergence of a trend in intimacy with eight live-in relationships ending in rape complaints in the last three months. These eight rape cases are a sizeable percentage of the total 37 cases in the past six months.

Failed live-ins behind rise in rape cases: HC

New Delhi: TIMES NEWS NETWORK

The Times of India Jun 20 2014

Young Adults Acting Immaturely, Says Court The court's observations came while upholding the life term given to four members of a Delhi-based girl's family for killing her lover as they did not approve of the relationship

One of the major reasons for increase in rape cases is the failure of live-in relationships or young adults acting immaturely by getting into commitments that end up in break-ups, the Delhi high court has observed.

A bench of justices [Mr.] Kailash Gambhir and [Ms.] Sunita Gupta made these observations while upholding the life term given to four members of a Delhi-based girl’s family, including her father, for killing her lover as they did not approve of the relationship.

Affair gone bad no ground for rape charge: Bombay HC

Shibu Thomas, TNN | Jul 12, 2013

The Times of India

MUMBAI: A love affair gone bad is no reason to charge a man who got a woman pregnant with rape, the Bombay high court has ruled. Justice Sadhna Jadhav acquitted Borivali resident Manesh Kotiyan (39) of rape charges three years after his arrest and subsequent conviction.

"The very fact that the prosecution has admitted in the cross-examination that she had a love affair with the accused and she desired to marry him. In these circumstances, offence under Section 376 of the IPC (rape) would necessarily fail," said Justice Jadhav ruling that the rape charges against Kotiyan were "unsustainable".

The court went through the prosecution case and noted that the accused had proposed to the girl. "The complainant is an educated adult person," said the judge. "She was fully aware of the fact that he (Kotiyan) was attracted to her. She chose to accompany him to Gorai. She also checked into a hotel to celebrate his birthday. She was aware of the consequences," said the judge.

"She had not cried for help and had not taken her resistance to a logical end. Hence, it would not be justifiable to hold that the consent was obtained by intimidation, force meditated imposition, circumvention surprise or undue influence," said the judge.

The court, however, upheld Kotiyan's conviction on charges of cheating as he had failed to disclose to the victim that he was married and had children. Since he has served around three years in prison, the court ordered his release.

"There is no evidence that the accused coerced her and raped her," said advocate Arfan Sait, who was appointed by the high court legal aid cell to defend Kotiyan. "He had always intended to marry her and had told her he would do so once the divorce proceedings ended."

The case dates back to March 2010, when the girl who was four months pregnant lodged a case of rape against Kotiyan. The two had met when they were working at a stationery shop in Borivli. In November 2009, they had gone to Gorai to celebrate Kotiyan's birthday, where according to the prosecution he forced her into having sexual intercourse. A sessions court in 2012 held Kotiyan guilty of rape and sentenced him to seven years rigorous imprisonment. Kotiyan filed an appeal in the HC. "It is clear from her deposition that she had lodged the FIR in a fit of rage," the HC said.

Live-in partners accused of rape get bail soon

Unlike in other rape cases, live-in partners accused of rape are usually out on bail soon.

"In many cases you find that the couples have been living together for almost a decade and one fine day the female partner wakes up and alleges rape. In many cases we do see that it's a frame-up but our hands are tied," a senior police officer told The Times of India on condition of anonymity.

When contacted, Alok Mittal, police commissioner, said, "If any complainant comes with a complaint of rape to us, we immediately lodge an FIR and arrest the accused. We present our investigation report in court and the court decides on the veracity of the allegations.

"It may be a new trend in live-in relationships, but on our part, we never delay lodging the FIR and arresting the accused. We do not sit in judgment on the allegation and do not make any subjective observation," the police commissioner said.

There were a couple of recent cases of fatality in live-in relationships that did not fit into the 'rape' trend. A Delhi Police inspector of the Special Cell (encounter specialist) and his live-in partner were found shot dead in suspicious circumstances at the woman's home in Ardee City in May. Earlier, a 24-year-old woman in a live-in relationship in rented accommodation near Sector 44 had committed suicide on April 14 by consuming a poisonous substance.

Supreme Court's anxiety over failed relationships being later termed rape

Can a failed relationship be later termed rape, asks SC

Dhananjay Mahapatra New Delhi: TNN

The Times of India Jun 28 2014

Court Worried Over Spurt In Such Cases, To Examine Issue The Supreme Court in June 2014 asked the question which had rankled the Delhi high court last year — Can a failed consensual relationship between adults lead to filing of rape charges against the man? In a judgment last year, the HC had flagged the issue and said rape cases were being used as “a weapon for vengeance and vendetta” to harass and even force a man to marry.

The Supreme Court did not pass any order. But it expressed anxiety over the recent spurt in such cases.

The case before the apex court concerned a failed relationship between a top IDFC banker and a former airhostess with an international airline. The man said the highly-educated and net savvy woman knew all along that he was married with two children and it was impossible to hide his marital status. He said he could not have induced sexual relationship on the promise of marriage. The woman in her complaint accused him of sexually abusing her on the promise of marriage and threatening to circulate an indecent video of her pre pared by him.

A vacation bench of Justices Vikramjit Sen and S K Singh asked: “Why did you take the indecent photograph? You say it was a selfie. Is it possible to take selfie of the whole body? Senior advocate Sidharth Luthra, appearing for the accused, said: “People get carried away in such relationships. They had a peculiar relationship. The bench asked, “Peculiar? It can be called a cupid relationship not a stupid relationship.“

When Luthra said that “breach of promise to marry“ was not an ingredient for rape charges, the bench asked: “Where is it held that if you had a relationship for two years, it becomes rape when it failed?“ Luthra conceded that there was a judgment to that effect by the Supreme Court.

U.S. live-in partner and father of her child accused

`THEY HAVE A DAUGHTER' - 26-year-old alleges rape by US pilot

Raj.Shekhar@timesgroup.com New Delhi:

The Times of India Jul 16 2014

A 26-year-old woman has accused an American pilot with a big airline of raping her on the pretext of marriage, police sources said.

The complainant, who stays in south Delhi, claimed to have been introduced to the pilot by a common friend, who is an air hostess, at a party four years ago. He proposed soon after they became friends. She alleged that the man entered into physical relations with her by promising to marry her and she became pregnant.

The woman, who belongs to West Bengal, said she was in a live-in relationship with the man for some time and they had a daughter. However, the man clandestinely changed jobs and shifted base to Singapore, she told cops. She claimed to have made several unsuccessful attempts to contact him.

Former lover accused of rape

Man accused of 'raping' lover let off

TNN Sep 16, 2013

The Times of India

NEW DELHI: A man accused of raping a married woman on the false promise of marriage has been acquitted by a Delhi court, which observed it was a case of an "extramarital affair being converted into rape".

The court said the 25-year-old woman, who has four children, filed a false case against her lover to save herself from "embarrassment", after her husband found out about the affair.

"This trend of extramarital affairs being converted into rape has become common and many cases on similar allegations have been filed. When a woman is not in a capacity to marry another man, then why should her paramour be prosecuted, incarcerated and be tried for rape when it is actually an affair," said additional sessions judge [Ms.] Nivedita Anil Sharma, adding that with changing times, the understanding of "morality" is also changing.

Journalist ‘raped’ for 6 years by live-in partner

The Times of India Feb 22, 2015

A 34-year-old journalist has alleged that she was raped by her live-in partner on the pretext of marriage in south Delhi's Vasant Kunj area. The police have registered a case against the 38-year-old man, who is absconding.

According to the woman, they were living together for the past six years. The man is a resident of Vasant Kunj. In her statement to the police, she claimed that the man raped her several times over the past six years. He allegedly refused to marry her after learning that she was pregnant. He even tried to abort her pregnancy, said a police source.

According to police officers, the woman met the accused after she got divorced seven years ago.

Man accused of raping former lover acquitted

Rebecca Samervel, TNN | Oct 2, 2013

The Times of India

MUMBAI: A sessions court on Tuesday acquitted a man accused of raping his former girlfriend and emailing her nude pictures to several employees of her company.

Special Judge [Ms.] Vrushali Joshi acquitted the accused after the prosecution failed to prove its case.

It was the prosecution's case that the accused (32) had raped and abused the 22-year-old woman on several occasions between June 2006 and December 2007. Defence advocate Amin Solkar argued that the sex was consensual and there was no evidence to show that the accused had actually sent the emails or pasted the pictures. "The camera from which the pictures were taken was actually recovered from the woman," Solkar said.

In her statement to the police, the woman said the duo had made attempts to elope and get married, but their plan did not materialize.

The woman claimed that she had found out that the accused was previously married. When confronted, he assured her that he would get a divorce.

Refusal to marry later called rape

See also the page Rapes in India: court verdicts, especially the section 'Is sex on promise of marriage rape?'

Neighbour raped her for years, refused to marry

The Times of India

Woman alleges rape, blackmail

New Delhi: A woman has alleged she was raped by her neighbour for the past few years after being blackmailed by him. She claimed that she was first raped at Buddh Garden in 2007 during which the man had clicked a few photographs of her which he had used to blackmail her later.

After she asked the man to marry her and he refused, she registered a case with Gulabi Bagh police station.

Police officer rapes for three years on assurance of marriage

Woman accuses police officer of rape, moves HC for CBI probe

PTI | Feb 25, 2014

NEW DELHI: A young woman has moved the Delhi high court accusing a Delhi police officer of having raped her over the last three years on the false assurance of marriage and sought a CBI probe into the case.

Live-in partner raped her for two years

Man held after woman cries rape

New Delhi: TNN The Times of India Jul 05 2014

A 26-year-old woman who worked as an actor in a theatre group has alleged that she was raped for the past two years by her male friend on the pretext of marriage. The man has been arrested. A case of rape has been registered

Police said the 28-year-old man used to stay with the woman at a rented house in east Delhi’s Jagatpuri area. She alleged that the man kept on making excuses of not marrying her for the past few months and had even planned to run away.

He raped her every week or fortnight but later refused to marry her

Delhi Police official booked for rape

IANS | Feb 9, 2014

NEW DELHI: A Delhi Police assistant sub-inspector was booked for raping and making video clip of a woman.

On the order of additional chief metropolitan magistrate Tarun Yogesh, police lodged a First Information Report (FIR) last week against ASI Varun Jha on charges of raping and criminally intimidating the woman.

Considering the gravity of allegations against a police official, the court said the case be investigated by an officer of the rank of an Inspector, preferably a woman officer, and directed that the probe be carried out under the direct supervision of the assistant commissioner of police (ACP) concerned.

In her complaint, the woman alleged that she met Jha about three years back and the two became friendly. She said on the promise of marrying her, the police official established a physical relationship by forcing her, despite her objection.

"Thereafter, Jha continued raping her every week or fortnight upon false promise of marrying her," the woman said in her complaint. Later, Jha refused to marry her.

She said Jha made a video clip of their relationship on a mobile phone. He threatened to show the recording to her family if she tried to force him into marriage.

She had sexual intercourse under the promise of marriage

Court acquits man accused of rape

New Delhi TIMES NEWS NETWORK

The Times of India Jun 19 2014

A trial court has acquitted a man accused of raping a woman after promising to marry her. The court held that the woman’s own statement proved that she had sexual intercourse with accused Puneet with her free will though under the promise of marriage.

Kalka man rapes girl on the pretext of marriage

Kalka man rapes and blackmails 25-year-old

TNN | Jun 28, 2013

The Times of India

CHANDIGARH: A 25-year-old girl from Sector 40 was raped and blackmailed by a Kalka resident who threatened her with the leaking of an objectionable MMS.

Police said Chetan developed a physical relationship with the girl on the pretext of marriage and filmed her. When the victim talked to him about marriage after four months, he refused and stopped taking her calls.

Railway Minister’s son and the actress

Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda’s son Kartik faces arrest over rape charge

Express News Service | Kochi | August 29, 2014

A Kannada actress, whom Railway Minister D V Sadananda Gowda’s son Karthik Gowda had been courting for the four previous months, actress accused 28-year-old Karthik of marrying and dumping her after his family objected to their relationship.

The 27-year-old actress filed her complaint hours after Karthik, the only son of the Railway Minister, got engaged to a girl of his mother Datty Gowda’s choice, a businessman’s daughter from Kodagu district of Karnataka, where Sadananda Gowda’s wife also hails from, [a day before the actress made the allegation].

At a press conference, the actress made an appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come to her assistance. The actress and her family members have said that the Railway Minister’s son was keen to marry her but all such plans were doused by his family a week ago. [Contradiction: Was he ‘keen to marry her’ or did he ‘marry and dump her’?]

She said Karthik took her to his family home in Mangalore in June this year and tied a thread around her neck on June 5 signifying a marriage. He introduced her to his friends as his wife, she claimed.

Mumbai: Crying rape after consensual sex

`Woman can't cry rape after consensual sex'

Rebecca Samervel The Times of India Dec 30 2014

Mum Court Acquits Accused After Woman's U-Turn

A sessions court recently acquitted a man of charges of rape under the pretext of marriage, taking into consideration the 36-year-old complainant's matured age and her marital status.

“Obviously , a married lady , a matured woman having two children with her own consent keeps sexual relations with the accused at various times, therefore ingredients of Section 375 (rape) of IPC are not attracted,“ additional sessions judge Shaida Razvi said in her six-page detailed judgment.

Interestingly, the woman had attributed the filing of the case to a “misunderstanding“, turned hostile in court and said during the trial that she did not want to proceed against the accused. But Razvi had said that even if the case is viewed on merit, the accused deserved an acquittal.

The case was registered on March 30, 2013. The woman claimed she knew the accused as they lived in the neighbourhood and that they had been meeting secretly for seven years as the man had a soft corner for her. She told police she was married and had two children, both now adults. She had separated from her husband in 2012 after a fight. Her daughter lived with her and the son stayed with her estranged husband.

She alleged that on November 9, 2011 at around 10pm, the accused asked her over to his house. He asked her to marry him and have a sexual relationship with him. When she said she would think it over and was about to leave the house, he shut the door and forced himself on her. He assured her that he would marry her and requested her not to talk about it as it would affect his reputation. A few days later, the man took her to a lodge, put a mangalsutra around her neck, applied sindoor and said they were now married. He promised he would register the marriage too. After this, they had sex on several occasions at various guesthouses and lodges until February 2013. On February 18, 2013, she claimed that the accused took her to a flat and rented it claiming they were husband and wife. Despite living together, the accused did not formally marry her and went on giving her false assurances, she claimed, leading her to file the complaint.

The accused pleaded not guilty. The woman also did an about turn, telling the court that on November 4, 2011 it was she who had gone to the house of the accused and had sex with him willingly. The accused never had sex with her under false assurances.

Delhi: ‘No proof that consent given on promise to marry’

PTI | Jan 21, 2016]

Court frees man of rape charges, terms it 'youthful eagerness'

A Delhi court has acquitted a rape accused saying he had consensual intimate relations in "youthful eagerness".A Delhi court has acquitted a rape accused saying he had consensual intimate relations in "youthful eagerness".

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has acquitted a man of the charges of raping a woman on false pretext of marriage observing that the two, being in the prime of their youth, had consensual intimate relations in "youthful eagerness".

Additional sessions judge Virender Bhatt, while acquitting Haryana resident Vikul Bakshi on the basis of the victim's "contradictory and inconsistent" statements, said the prosecution failed to prove charges against the accused.

"It appears that the two, being in the prime of their youth, were having sexual relations with each other in youthful eagerness and nothing else," the court said.

It further said, "There is no evidence on record to suggest that the prosecutrix had given her consent to physical relations with the accused solely on the latter's promise to marry her or that he was having knowledge that she consented to physical relations with him only on promise to marry her."

The judge said the consent of the victim to establish physical relations with the accused appears to be voluntary and uninfluenced by any promise or assurance.

According to prosecution, the woman had lodged a case against Vikul under sections 376 (rape) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC alleging that the accused forced upon her twice against her consent on false pretext of marriage and threatened to defame her if she insisted upon marrying her.

However, relying on the messages exchanged between them on social networking sites, the court said it "clearly indicates that the prosecutrix herself was eager to have sexual relation with the accused and she was not doing so on any promise of marriage with him."

The court said the perusal of these messages show that these are not normal routine messages and the woman and the accused have been discussing the manner in which they would enjoy the intimate act.

"Hence these messages demonstrate that the prosecutrix was a consenting partner to physical relations with the accused and she herself had been eager to enjoy sex with him and the plan to have sexual encounter December 11, 2014 had been made well in advance and it was not spontaneous," it said.

IPS officer ‘raped’ her in hotel after promising to marry

The Times of India

Maha IPS officer booked for rape

A Maharashtra cadre IPS officer has been booked in MP for allegedly raping an UPSC aspirant on pretext of marriage, police said on Friday. According to a complaint filed by the Jabalpur-based victim, 2013 batch IPS officer Lohit Matani raped her at a hotel in Tukoganj area in August after promising to marry her.

’Prof. raped her at 5-star hotel on pretext of marriage ‘

[Jan 09 2016 : The Times of India]

Ahmedabad prof `rapes' woman

New Delhi:

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

A professor with a prestigious institute in Ahmedabad has been accused of allegedly raping a woman at a five-star hotel in New Delhi on the pretext of marrying her.

Police said the incident occurred a year ago, but the woman approached them last we ek to lodge a complaint.

The 30-year-old woman, working with a city-based hardware company , said she became pregnant after the sexual assault. Later, the professor married her in a temple but without revealing the fact that he was already married and had a child from his first wife.

A few days after their mar riage, the woman suspected him of having an affair. She la ter found that the professor was already married and his wife worked in the same institute as a faculty.

Police registered a case of rape, criminal intimidation and criminal conspiracy against him and his accomplices at Barakhamba police station.

Refusal to give apartment/ gifts is called rape

Five-year-old affair becomes rape when lover does not give her an apartment

Air hostess files rape charge

Sanjay Yadav, TNN | Oct 13, 2013

The Times of India

GURGAON: A 48-year-old property dealer has been arrested in Palam Vihar for allegedly raping a 29-year-old air hostess, who was a tenant in his house.

The victim claimed that she trusted her landlord, Rajiv Bagga, when he got intimate with her and promised to marry her. A source said that Bagga was already married twice and the victim had been involved with him since 2008. She had pleaded with him to marry her earlier but he had calmed her with the promise of gifting her a flat. Some days ago, when she got to know that the promised flat had already been sold by Bagga, she felt duped.

Criminal raped her for 4 years, lured her with gold, clothes and promises of marriage

In most countries she would be called a gangster's moll or mistress. In India she is called a 'rape survivor.'

Mahanand raped me for 4 years, says victim

Preetu Nair & Rajeshree Nagarsekar, TNN May 23, 2009, 04.21am IST

The Times of India

PANAJI: A 23-year-old rape survivor revealed that dupatta killer Mahanand Naik raped her everyday for four years and then lured her with gold, clothes and promises of marriage. When she objected, he threatened her, she alleged.

"For four years, he wouldn't allow me to talk to anyone. If I talked to a man, he would threaten me. Two years ago I got a marriage proposal from Ponda. Mahanand went to the boy and told him that I am his girl', thereby destroying my marriage prospects," revealed [name concealed],.

Interestingly, Mahanand never beat her or tried to kill her. On the contrary, he lured her with promises of marriage, jewellery and clothes. "He gifted me clothes, gold jewellery and also promised to marry me. I had no option but to believe him as I had no one to turn to for help," she said.

Refusal to give/ continue employment later called rape

Consensual sex turns into rape on not getting the employment promised

Court sees consent, frees rape accused

The Times of India

New Delhi: A trial court has acquitted a man of raping a woman saying physical relations between them were maintained with the girl’s consent. “The fact that she stayed with the accused, fully knowing that he was staying alone and used to cook meals for him and they both lived as husband and wife, do bring us to the conclusion that she consented to physical relations,” the court said.

Additional sessions judge Yogesh Khanna, however, convicted the man of wrongfully restraining and beating the woman. “The bare fact the prosecutrix knew that the accused is a married man and, (knowing she cannot marry him) yet continued to stay with him, making physical relations and not filing any police complaint shows that she had consented to such relations.” The accused was arrested after the woman, a cook, alleged that since September 2011, while she was living with him at his south Delhi flat, she was raped on several occasions by the accused on the assurance of getting her employed soon. TNN

He raped her 16 times in five years but did not give her a film role

In other countries this is called the 'casting couch'

Madhur Bhandarkar (left) and Preeti Jain

Preeti Jain 'rape' case: Madhur Bhandarkar gets relief after 9 years

New Delhi, Mon Nov 05 2012

IndianExpress

The Supreme Court today quashed the ongoing criminal proceedings of Bollywood film director Madhur Bhandarkar on allegations of rape levelled by actress Preeti Jain.

The actress had lodged a complaint with the Versova police in July 2004 alleging that Bhandarkar had raped her 16 times between 1999 and 2004 on the pretext of casting her as actress in his films.

She alleged Bhandarkar promised to marry her and to cast her in his films, but he went back on his promises later.

Complaint Filed By Ex-Staffer After Sacking

MNC director accused of rape

Company Says Complaint Filed By Ex-Staffer After Sacking

Rao Jaswant Singh &Sanjay Yadav TNN

The Times of India

Gurgaon: A 32-year-old former employee of consultancy major Aon Hewitt has accused a director of the company of raping her inside his office chamber in the company’s Gurgaon office.

The woman, who was an operations manager at the company’s Noida branch but also spent time in the Gurgaon office, has alleged that the director often called her to his cabin and “indulged in activities which can be defined as rape according to the new legislation”. She also accused two other senior officials of calling her to their cabin and making her watch porn and molesting her.

When contacted, an Aon Hewitt spokesperson said in a mailed response: “(The woman) was terminated from employment on December 3, 2013. Following a complaint received, Aon Hewitt conducted an internal investigation which found that she had not adhered to the rules, regulations and policies of the company.

'He raped me for several years/ months'

He raped her for seven months in hotel rooms in tourist resorts all over India

22-yr-old UP girl accuses IAS officer of raping her

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

The Times of India

Jaipur: A 22-year-old woman has lodged an FIR against IAS officer B B Mohanty, accusing him of raping and sexually exploiting her for seven months after promising to help her clear the civil services examination and later marry her.

The woman, who is from Uttar Pradesh and used to live in a Jaipur hostel, said the officer raped her for the first time at a flat occupied by him in the city on February 19 last year. She alleged that over the next few months Mohanty took her to several places — including Udaipur, Goa, Chennai and Bharatpur — where they stayed in hotels and he sexually exploited her.

SHO Mahesh Nagar Ramavtar said the IAS officer took the woman to his flat on February 17 and molested her that day and then raped her on February 19.

[Three months before her present accusation,] in November [2013], the woman had accused the 52-year-old owner of her hostel of raping her. Ramgopal Kumawat was arrested following the allegation. He is still in judicial custody.

Fashion model was raped in hotels on several occasions

Mumbai model accuses senior IPS officer of rape

Nitasha Natu,TNN | Jul 24, 2014 The Times of India

MUMBAI: A senior IPS (police) officer has been booked by Malwani police on charges of raping a model.

The model has complained that she used to visit Paraskar, when he was posted in the north region, for some work for which she needed his help. She has alleged that she was taken to a hotel in Malwani where she was raped on several occasions.

The model sought notoriety

Rape allegation against Maharashtra top cop Sunil Paraskar is for 'publicity': Model's ex-lawyer

PTI | Aug 5, 2014

A former lawyer of the alleged victim, a model-turned-actress, has said she never told him about the rape and claimed she brought up the charge to gain publicity to enter a reality show.

"I have submitted the messages exchanged between me and the victim through SMSs and WhatsApp. After going through these messages, it will be clear that she (the model) filed the case against DIG Paraskar purely for publicity so that she gets a place in a reality show," Rizwan Siddiqui, who earlier represented the model, has told the police.

Man rapes friend for nine years

Man rapes friend for nine years; case registered

Press Trust of India | Posted on Jul 21, 2013

IBNlive

A forty-year-old woman was allegedly raped and blackmailed by a loan agent-cum-trader for nine years in Hasanpura area of the city, police said on Sunday.

Victim living alone in the city had clearly mentioned that she had earlier friendship with the accused for nine years, and he used to visit her home too.

Accused was working as loan agent and was paying good interests on her money lent to customers, but all of sudden his intention turned bad, and committed rape on a number of occasions in the city hotels and her home, SHO said.

The accused had blackmail her with obscene pictures, police said, adding he had stolen some stamp papers and cheques from her house also.

He raped her for six years

In another case, a 57-year-old CEO of a tour operator company was arrested by city police for allegedly raping his live-in partner. She accused her partner of raping her for six years on the pretext of marriage. The complainant, a 42-year-old owner of a spa-cum-salon in the city, had alleged that the CEO had shown her a fake divorce certificate to lure her. The accused, who was sent in judicial custody, was granted bail after some days.

Man rapes woman colleague for 3 yrs

The Times of India

A24-year-old woman from Rajkot had allegedly been raped for three years by her colleague in different parts of Gujarat on the promise of marriage. The woman is a diploma engineer and was in Surat since 2010. She was an employee of an online marketing firm for which Verma, too, worked. Her family stays in Rajkot. The woman was allegedly raped by the accused in hotels near Rajkot and other areas of the city. TNN

He raped her for two and a half years

On June 11 a woman, who worked as a software engineer in a Gurgaon-based company, accused her live-in partner of raping her for two and a half years on the pretext of marrying her. The victim was previously married to another man but left him to be with the accused and has a nine-month-old child from the relationship. Sector 40 police lodged an FIR and arrested the accused, who was later sent in judicial custody.

They raped her three times a year ago

Woman alleges repeated rape by AAP candidate and associates

PTI | Mar 27, 2014

GWALIOR: A 30-year-old woman has filed a complaint alleging that Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate from Guna-Shivpuri Lok Sabha seat and three office bearers allegedly raped her at least three times over a period of more than a year, about a year ago.

Additional superintendent of police (ASP) Virendra Jain said that as per Supreme Court guidelines if an incident of rape is more than three months old, then an FIR in the matter would be filed only after a probe, which the police has initiated.

‘She was raped by him on several occasions'

Man freed of rape charge ‘

The Times of India TNN Oct 12, 2013

A trial court has acquitted a man, accused of assaulting a New Zealand-based divorcee and raping her on the false promise of marrying her, saying the woman "voluntarily" had sexual relations with him as she was in love and wanted to marry him.

Police arrested the man in March 2013. The woman had alleged that she was raped by him on several occasions since April 2011 on the false promise of marriage after she got divorce from her Indian husband in September 2010. The woman had said that she met the accused through her ex-husband in New Zealand and they both became friends. "The accused used to visit her house since 2009.

"It is, therefore, beyond any shadow of doubt that the victim indulged in sexual intercourse with the accused voluntarily as she was in love with him and wanted to marry him. The sexual intercourse between the two was with her consent," the court said

Rape allegation on being caught In flagrante delicto

Police inspector rapes woman for one month

In other countries this is called 'In flagrante delicto'

SHO 'rapes' junior's wife, probe ordered

Purusharth Aradhak, TNN | Jul 15, 2013

The Times of India

BULANDSHAHR: A police station in charge was caught raping a constable's wife inside the police station in Khurja on Sunday morning.

The victim lodged a complaint with the police

The victim's husband is posted in the police lines. On Sunday at 5am, when he returned to his quarter in the police station, he allegedly found his wife and the station house in-charge in a compromising state. On seeing her husband, the victim screamed and ran towards him. She told him that the police inspector had been raping her for the last one month.

Lovers' tiff/ anger/ intoxication leads to rape allegation

Rape alleged when girl feels cheated; retracted when they marry

Mumbai couple bonded by love, hounded by rape law

Swati.Deshpande@timesgroup.com Mumbai:

The Times of India Jul 21 2014

It's a case that underscores the legal perils that shadow consensual sex between teenagers. A girl from Mumbai recently filed a rape case against her boyfriend of years when she felt cheated by him. Now married, the couple is trying hard to get the case quashed.

A bench of Justices V M Kanade and P D Kode, appeared increasingly incredulous as the young man's lawyer recounted the facts of the case. The Bombay HC last month gave him anticipatory bail, which was earlier denied by a sessions court.

The girl and the boy , neighbours in Borivli, were dating for around six years. The couple had sexual relations in 2012. But this year, the relationship soured.

The girl (now 18) complained to her father that he was borrowing money from her -she even sold some of her mother's jewellery -and spending it on other girls. The girl and her father, along with a social worker, filed a police complaint against the boy on May 15. It said the boy had sex with her after promising to marry her -a statement that, as always, prompted the cops to invoke the rape charge against him.

But a week later, the Gujarati girl married the Marathi boy , saying she was still in love.

The couple has realized a rape charge is not easy to shake off and cannot be settled out of court, with or without the court's consent. Nor can courts quash it simply at their urging.

Girl is intoxicated, alleges rape

FALSE CASE - HC summons `rape' survivor

Abhinav Garg, The Times of India, May 18 2015

A woman who levelled rape allegations only to later claim that she did it under the influence of alcohol is now in the dock.

The Delhi high court has asked the rape “victim“ to now appear before it, even as it granted interim protection from arrest to the accused.

According to the complaint, the victim was called by Kumar to his office in Rohini on the pretext of getting her a job. When she reached there, she was made to consume a soft drink laced with sedatives. The FIR stated that she became drowsy after which Kumar raped her. Later, when police produced her before a magistrate, the woman repeated her allegation but failed to specify if she was raped or subjected to sexual abuse. She only said Kumar forced her to drink alcohol and when she was back to her senses she was without clothes.

Even as police launched a hunt to nab the accused, the woman shifted her stand, moving an application in the court to reveal that sex with Kumar was consensual and police were called under influence of alcohol. A shocked magistrate then asked her to approach the HC and seek quashing of the FIR against Kumar on this ground.

Girl is called insane, gets angry, alleges rape

Man acquitted of rape charge The Times of India May 10 2015

A trial court has acquitted Samidul, a Jahangirpuri resident, of the charges of raping his 12-year-old cousin, saying the girl had lodged a false complaint.

The court also noted that the minor's mother, a key witness, did not support the prosecution's case. It added that the medical report of the girl [/ evidence on record] did not suggest she was raped or sexually assaulted. “The girl deposed that because the accused used to call her insane, she had lodged the present complaint,“ additional sessions judge Gautam Manan said.

Rape allegation when unwed pregnancy discovered

He raped his sister-in-law repeatedly for two months while her sister was away

JNU student arrested for raping sister-in-law

The Times of India

New Delhi: A PhD scholar at JNU was held on Saturday for raping his sister-in-law.

The 16-year-old told police she was repeatedly raped by the accused, who is married to her elder sister, over two months and she became pregnant. The survivor, a Class VII student at a government school, had been living with the accused in Munirka area while her sister was with their parents in their village in UP.

The incident came to light when the girl was taken to hospital after she complained of stomach pain. Doctors said she was two months’ pregnant. The girl’s family had sent her to the capital for better education after the accused promised to take care of her.

’Gang-rape’ and conversion alleged

Twist in Meerut `rape' case

The Times of India Aug 09 2014

Investigations into the Meerut `gang rape and conversion' case, which has had the city simmering with tension for almost a week now, got a new twist on Friday with police claiming the 20-year-old woman was in a relationship with a man called Kaleem and it was he who had taken her to a hospital for an operation related to pregnancy .

The woman had earlier said four persons, responsible for her sexual abuse, confinement in a madrassa and forced conversion, had bundled her into a van and taken her to a clinic for a surgery.

“Her relationship with Kaleem surfaced with the help of a call detail report in which it was found that the woman had spent hours talking to this man before her disappearance on July 23,” said SSP Onkar Singh.

According to the police, the woman, accompanied by Kaleem, had approached a gynaecologist after she suffered acute pain in her abdomen. An examination found she had ectopic pregnancy, a condition in which the embryo gets implanted in one of the fallopian tubes. She had been carrying this for 45 days.

She was prescribed an immediate operation. On July 23, the couple reached Meerut Medical College and signed a consent form as ‘husband and wife’ after which the surgery began.

Cases that would be considered rape only in India

False cases give Delhi the label of 'rape capital': Judge

The Times of India

False cases are the reasons behind labelling of Delhi as the 'rape capital', a court in Delhi has held while acquitting a 75-year-old man on the charge of sexually assaulting his maid after the woman turned hostile.

The court said after the December 16 gang rape of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in Delhi, it led to the creation of an atmosphere that "the mere statement of a lady that she has been raped, came to be taken as the gospel truth, on the basis of which the accused was arrested and chargesheeted".

"This lead to an unprecedented surge in filing of false rape cases...It is these false cases which play havoc with the crime statistics, leading to the labelling of Delhi as a 'rape capital'," additional sessions judge Virender Bhat said, while acquitting Bhopal Sharma of the charge of sexually assaulting his maid.

The court observed that as acquittals in such cases are hardly ever reported, the falsely implicated persons lose their honour, dignity and status in the society and though these cannot be restored, "these victims" can be compensated so that they can start life afresh.

It also noted that "it is a matter of intense regret that even the frail, sick and aged persons are not spared from the false allegations of rape".

Bhopal Sharma and his maid (domestic employee)

The maid in her complaint had said a few days after she started working at Sharma's house in July 2012, he had raped her and after the incident, had promised to marry her.

Thereafter, he continued to have sexual relations with her on the pretext of marrying her, the maid had alleged, adding that she lodged the police complaint on October 11, 2012 after Sharma expressed his unwillingness to keep his promise.

However, during the trial, the woman turned hostile and said she had levelled false allegations on the advice of Anita and another person Kuldeep.

'The majority of the cases do not fit into the conventional bracket of rape'

Attention has once again been drawn to the security, legality and the apparent misuse of this much-professed institution of convenience. Gurgaon police arrest the accused without fail but a majority of the cases do not fit into the conventional bracket of rape.

When live-in relationships sour, it is usually because the women feel cheated by the fact that the alleged promise of marriage is not kept.

Consensual menage-a-trois called forced sex

Consensual sex lands couple in prison, friend in trouble

TNN | Aug 17, 2014 The Times of India

BANGALORE: A couple was arrested on Monday after a friend and neighbour alleged that she was forced by them to have sex with the man. The case has now taken a curious turn with police saying it was consensual sex that had the approval of the man, wife and her friend but went awry after the wife changed tack.

The couple had been arrested after their friend and neighbour from, complained to Gangammanagudi police about the forced sexual outrage that took place on July 27.

The complainant, a married woman, had a cordial relationship with Asha, 24, married to Dileep, 30, who worked as a bill collector with a local cable operator. The friend had expressed her desire to watch a porn movie with Asha, who also reciprocated and promised to get a porn VCD. Later Asha suggested to her friend that instead of watching porn, she could have a sexual encounter with her husband.

On July 27 around 9.30pm, Asha invited the woman to her house and facilitated the encounter with Dileep. "But after this, Asha turned tables against the woman accusing her of having an illicit relationship with Dileep for a long time. A quarrel ensued between the two and Asha threatened to inform the woman's husband. The woman panicked and told her husband that Asha had been accusing her of an illicit relationship with Dileep. He then suggested that she go to her parental home," said police.

Fearing ignominy, the woman and her husband approached Gangammanagudi police station and filed a case against the couple. Both Asha and Dileep were arrested and sent to judicial custody.

Both couples live in Shivananjappa Layout near Abigere close to Jalahalli

Borderline cases

Intoxicated girl says she was 'gang-raped' by friends who used contraceptives

19-year-old girl 'gang-raped' in Raipur

Rashmi Drolia, TNN | Aug 26, 2013

The Times of India

RAIPUR: Civil Lines police, while patrolling late on Sunday night, found [a] girl in Shankar Nagar locality in a suspicious state. During questioning, she claimed that she was gang-raped by five youths, who took her to an isolated place.

The girl retracted from her statement on Monday while taking to the media, claiming that all the five youth, named in her statement, were her friends and they didn't rape her. However, the police searched the crime scene, as earlier described by the girl, and found contraceptives.

Police sources claimed that the girl might have been physically involved with her boyfriend who later called his friends, who later gang-raped her. Girl was under the influence of alcohol when police brought her to police station.

Civil Lines town inspector [Ms] Manisha Thakur [arrested] the five accused [and released the names of all five to the media, tarnishing their reputations forever; the name of the girl who made the accusation was, as is the practice in India, kept a secret]. A case under Section 376 (2G) of the IPC was registered against the [five accused].

Girl raped by the man she eloped with, his friends

[Dec 31 2015 : The Times of India]

Girl alleges gang rape

New Delhi:

TNN

A 23-year-old woman has alleged that she was gang-raped by three men. Two of the accused were arrested on Tuesday , while a search is on the nab the other.

The woman said she had met the trio while doing a course at an aviation institute. A year ago, she had eloped with one of them, who took her to a house in Kailash Colony . She alleged that she was confined there for nearly a year-and-a-half during which she was raped by all three of them.

They even admitted her to a nursing home in Mehrauli after telling the doctors that her mental condition is unstable.

Her girlfriends film her being raped in her own house

[The Times of India]

Girls film friend's rape, upload clip

Two schoolgirls have been detained for allegedly colluding in and filming the rape of a friend at her house and uploading the clip online. A report has been filed, but the youth who allegedly raped the 16-year-old girl is at large, police said. Mrigank Tiwari

Extorting money by falsely alleging rape

Female gang alleges rape to extort money in ten cases

JULY 9 HEARING - Report sought on rape-law gang

New Delhi

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

The Times of India Jul 07 2014

Taking serious note of a complaint alleging misuse of anti-rape laws by a woman gang for extortion of money , a trial court has directed Delhi Police to file a detailed status report in the matter. The court also directed a DCP to personally appear before it on July 9 with the report saying, “any abuse and misuse of laws relating to crime against women by a group for attaining their nefarious ends needs to be checked, for it dilutes the cause in genuine cases.“

The complainant has alleged that a woman, who is a key member of the gang, has filed more than 10 false cases in the same police station in order to “extort money from innocent men.“

Additional sessions judge [Ms] Kamini Lau said if allegations made by the man regarding the complainant being a member of a gang indulging in extortion activities and filing false cases is correct, “then it is a serious matter which should have been looked and inquired into at the level of district head“.

False charges cause irreparable damage to the accused

[Sana Shakil, The Times of India]

Jan 18 2016 : The Times of India (Delhi)

`False rape cases give city a bad name'

Court Tells Cops To Book Woman

False rape charges not only cause immense distress and irreparable damage to the person who has been falsely implicated but it also gives the world a chance to label the city as rape capital, a trial court said while expressing concern over increase in filing of false rape cases in the city .

The court's remarks came while closing a rape and sexual harassment case against two men after it found that the woman had registered a false case to extort money from them.

Taking strict note of the woman's conduct, the court ordered the station house officer of Saket police station, where the case was lodged, to initiate legal action against her for filing a false complaint and for giving a false statement on oath.

Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Gaurav Rao passed the order while accepting Delhi Police's cancellation report. The woman had lodged a complaint against Vipin (name changed) alleging that he had promised her help to find her a job, and took her to an office where she was sexually harassed by Kunal (name changed).Vipin again met her on the pretext of providing her a job and this time he raped her, the complaint claimed.

A complaint was filed against Kunal under Section 354 of the IPC (outraging the modesty of a woman), while Vipin was booked for committing alleged offence of rape under Section 37 of the IPC. However, police told the court that allegations against the accused were found to be “forged, baseless and fabricated“ adding, this was done with an intention to “extort money“ from the accused.

The judge accepted police's report after the complainant, too, said she has no objection with acceptance of the closure report. However, she pleaded that no legal action be taken against her and she may be let off with a warning. The court, however, said that it was “appalled“ by her conduct as she had caused “unfathomable“ trauma to the two men.

“She tried to extort money from the alleged accused and maligned their image . Such allegations not only defame and shame a person but also let the world label the capital as rape capital.She set the entire state machinery into motion and tried to use the law for her benefit knowing full well that the allegations levelled by her were false,“ the court said. It also praised the investigating officer for bringing out the “true facts“.

Fabricated rapes

Gang-rape story concocted

Teacher concocts gang-rape story to save rape-accused lover

PTI | Apr 28, 2014

BUNDI: A 28-year-old teacher who claimed she was gang-raped by four persons on premises of a government school here, on Monday said she had counterfeited the story to save her rape accused paramour.

The woman was in a relationship with one Mahaveer Meena, who had been accused by the wife of one of the falsely accused persons Dayaram Meena in another rape case.

The woman had a month back disguised as a woman police constable and visited all the four false accused at their homes and threatened them of framing false rape case against them if the rape case against her paramour Mahaveer was not withdrawn.

Gang-rape fabricated by television journalists

2 journalists held for staging Gzb gang rape

Purusharth Aradhak The Times of India

Ghaziabad: The case involving the alleged gang-rape of a Meerut-based woman in Ghaziabad took a dramatic the following day when police arrested two journalists working with a news channel on charges of framing the two people charged with the crime. Ghaziabad police claimed that the conspiracy was meticulously hatched and that the woman, before contacting police, had sexual intercourse with one of the journalists to establish rape in her medical examination. Police have lodged two FIRs in the matter, one against the two alleged rapists and the other against four persons including the two journalists on charges of extortion. The rape victim’s role is being scrutinized, Ghaziabad SSP Dharmender Singh said. “Links in the victim's story was missing and the two accused lodged a complaint of extortion by two journalists and two women including the rape victim on Thursday,” Singh said.

Woman pressurised to allege rape

Husband and father-in law forced woman to accuse youth of rape

‘KIN PRESSURE’/ Youth acquitted after woman admits filing false rape case

The Times of India

New Delhi: A trial court has acquitted a youth of raping and blackmailing a woman after the woman admitted that she had lodged a false complaint against him because of pressure from her husband and father-in law.

The woman was “willingly engaged” in sexual relations with the youth, the court said, and had lent him money of her “own will”.

The woman lodged a police complaint alleging that she was raped by the accused after being offered some allurement. The woman claimed that she was threatened by the youth who had said he had taken her obscene photographs and started blackmailing her by demanding money, which she had to give him from time to time.

Family forced divorcee to accuse MP of raping her for four years

BSP MP didn’t rape me: Woman

The Times of India

New Delhi: In a twist to the rape case registered against BSP MP Dhananjay Singh, the woman who accused the legislator of repeatedly raping her for over four years, retracted her statement on Friday before a trial court and said Dhananjay had done no wrong to her. The woman, a former railway employee, turned hostile and told the court that she had deposed against the accused under pressure from relatives.

The woman told the court that she had lodged a case against Dhananjay as she feared that the accused was interfering in her married life. She further deposed that she was disturbed after her husband sent divorce papers to her in 2009.

Parents force girl to allege rape

Court acquits Amity rape accused, says evidence cooked up

Sana Shakil,TNN | Mar 6, 2015 The Times of India

Accusing the police of fabricating evidence in a sensational 2012 'rape' case, a trial court has acquitted two youths, including a student of Amity University, who were accused of gang-raping another student of the university.

According to the police, the alleged incident took place in the afternoon of June 14, 2012. Amity student Prashant called the woman, who was his batchmate, to Vasant Vihar to watch a movie. He was accused of giving her an alcoholic drink, driving her to a secluded place in Paschim Vihar in his Honda City car, calling his friend Milind to the spot and gang-raping her.

Freeing the duo, additional sessions judge Virender Bhat also suggested that they seek compensation from the woman and her parents because their lives and careers being jeopardized because of the "false" case.

The court said that all evidence, including forensic reports contradicted the theory of rape and anal intercourse, as alleged by the woman. It said medical evidence contradicted the rape claim while phone records, too, showed the woman was getting calls from her family when she was allegedly being gang-raped.

The court held that woman's parents pushed her into implicating the accused as they didn't like their daughter getting drunk with Prashant on the day of the alleged incident. It rejected police's story that Prashant and the woman were just classmates and said they were probably in love.

During the trial, the woman had failed to identify the place of alleged rape.

"The conduct of the accused in dropping the woman near a police barricade and that they even spoke to two cops there is indicative of the fact...that they had not committed any crime," the court said, adding that police cleverly chose not to list these cops as prosecution witnesses in the case whereas those two could have proved to be material witnesses in the case.

The woman spoke about being gang-raped by the duo only on June 28, 2012, 14 days after the incident.

Acquitting Milind, the court said call records and testimonies of various witnesses established that he was not with Prashant and the woman when the alleged incident took place. Milind met them only after Prashant called him to help drop the woman safely as she was drunk, the court said.

The duo dropped the woman at Vasant Vihar and asked her parents to take her home as she was heavily drunk, the court said.

Damage caused by false accusations

'Should man acquitted of rape be considered survivor?'

Consensual sex called rape due to wrong advice

Jun 03 2015 The Times of India

FALSE COMPLAINT - Should man acquitted of rape be considered survivor: Court

Acquitting a man in a rape case, a trial court has expressed concern over the society's treatment of men who are accused of heinous crimes but are later found to be innocent. Should a person acquitted of rape charge be considered as a “rape survivor“, the court asked.

“In the circumstances, an acquitted accused, who has remained in custody for a considerable period during trial and who has been acquitted honourably after prosecutrix deposed that he has not raped her and she had physical relations with him with her free consent, should he now be addressed as rape case survivor? This leaves us with much to ponder about present day situation of veracity of rape cases,“ the court asked.

Additional sessions judge (Ms) Nivedita Anil Sharma made the observation while acquitting a Haryana resident of the offence of raping a divor cee after she retracted from her complaint. The woman said she was now happily married to the accused.

“The court, while absolving the accused of the charge, took into consideration the woman's statement before it that she lodged a false complaint against him due to wrong advice and influence of some well wishers.

According to the prosecution, on March 11, 2015, the woman told police that the accused had promised to marry her and established physical relations with her forcefully.She claimed that she knew the accused since a long time as he was from her village.

False rape charges destroy lives

The Times of India Jun 09 2015 : The Times of India (Delhi)

GANG RAPE CASE - HC frees 5, says false rape charges destroy lives

Just as rape causes great distress to the victim, a false charge destroys lives and damages reputation, the Delhi high court has said, acquitting five men who were jailed sixteen years ago on the charge of gang rape.

“There is no doubt that rape causes great distress and humiliation to the victim of rape but at the same time false allegation of committing a rape also causes humiliation and damage to the accused. An accused also has rights which are to be protected and the possibility of false implication has to be ruled out,“ a bench of Justices G S Sistani and [Ms] Sangita Dhingra Sehgal noted in its verdict.

The court set aside the conviction of the five men after it found that the woman who had leveled the charge of being gang raped gave inconsistent statements in court and hid the fact she was in a relationship with one of the accused.

“Her version has no corre lation with other supporting material being medical, scientific and expert evidence,“ the bench observed. The trial court had gone with the story of the prosecution as recorded in the FIR lodged by the woman. In her complaint registered in 1994, the woman had claimed she met the main accused Praveen, and they became friends. She said one day he took her to a friend's house and raped her.Later he also secretly filmed her being raped by Praveen's friend Bittoo. In her complaint the woman maintained she was regularly raped by Praveen's other friends, all of whom were arrested and charge sheeted by the police.

In its judgment the trial court relied to a large extent on the claim of the woman and convicted the accused, even though, as the HC bench pointed out, there were glaring errors in her statements to the po ice. Pleading innocence, Praveen told the court that he was framed by the girl since he refused to marry her.

The cost of false allegations to the nation

At the very least, such cases trivialise rape, and when non-consensual sex (i.e. a real rape) takes place, it has to share the time of the judiciary, the police, the media and the public with cases of this kind.

12 police teams check 700 cars, because woman frames male friend after tiff

Sex-assault cry sends police into tizzy

Raj Shekhar TNN The Times of India

New Delhi: About 10.30pm on Saturday night, police received a call from a woman in Mahipalpur who said she was bruised and had been partially disrobed and was lying by the roadside. The same stretch of road, nature of call and the time made South Delhi police think this was another brutal crime.

The woman, in her early twenties, claimed she had been abducted, molested in a moving car and dumped there by a man who had offered her a lift. What followed was a night-long operation by local police, special task force and special staff. Even the top cops were informed and they monitored the situation..

12 teams were formed to trace the white car the last four digits of the numberplate of which was provided to police by the woman. One of the teams got 700 cars verified. The wild goose chase ended on Sunday morning when one of the accused was picked up

Only then was it revealed that the woman had had a fight with her two male friends and got down from the car when it slowed down amidst heavy traffic. As the car was still in motion at the time, she received bruises on her face and hands while dismounting. When it had passed, she made a PCR call and told police her story. Her claims are now being investigated.

However, when policewomen quizzed her, the woman gave conflicting statements, sources said. The two men were not strangers as she had first claimed. STF and special staff teams then analyzed call details of the numbers she was in touch with. These numbers were obtained from her phone. By morning, the suspect was apprehended. He was interrogated and he revealed that he knew the woman and that they had had a fight the previous night. He admitted that he was driving the car that night. He has been arrested.

See also

Age of consent Crimes against women: India Juveniles, benefits and privileges of Juvenile delinquency in India Especially the section 'Rape by juveniles' Premarital sex

Other articles about rapes in India

Rapes in India Rapes in India: court verdicts Rapes in India: the legal position after 2013 <>Rapes in India: Compensation and help for survivors