The Delhi High Court verdict acquitting Mahmood Farooqui, who has been jailed for raping an American scholar, has triggered a debate on sexual consent. The judgement, more than 80 pages in length, has dealt extensively with the issue of consent in a sexual relationship and has reached the conclusion that 'instances of women's behavior are not unknown, that a feeble 'no' may mean a 'yes' which begs the question, in the case of sex being forced upon a person, what exactly does an individual need to do - shout 'no' at the top of their voice? That is often just not possible, particularly, if a woman is threatened, physically restricted and unable to resist; not because she doesn't want to resist, but simply because she cannot. On The Buck Stops Here, we debate: Does this judgement reverse the path of justice that had been established after India invoked some of the most stringent anti-rape legislation in the world?
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A 30-year-old married woman working as an Area Manager with a multinational pharmaceutical company here has lodged a sexual harassment complaint against two senior colleagues, following which an investigation has been initiated, police said on Sunday.
A 13-year-old girl was repeatedly allegedly raped by her father for six months, following which he was arrested from Rajasthan's Jhalawar district on Monday night, police said today.
The mother of a 16-year-old girl with special needs who was allegedly raped by a 60-year-old man in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore district has said that she was turned away by the police when she went to file a complaint.
A 43-year-old man was arrested for allegedly raping his niece in north Delhi's Kotwali, police said on Saturday. The incident first took place first on March 26, when the girl was alone at home as her aunt had gone to Bhagalpur in Bihar, they said.
The CBI today arrested two sub-inspectors of the Uttar Pradesh Police in connection with the reported death of the father of a minor girl, who was allegedly raped by BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Senger at Unnao, in judicial custody.
Three men allegedly drugged a 12-year-old girl and took turns to rape her, before abandoning her in a Delhi-bound train, police said on Monday. An FIR has been lodged against the accused, two of whom have been identified by the police.