Rape
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Necrophilia: Unheard Voice Of Those Buried
Imagine a person who is mute and locked within a black box. Suddenly, a shadowy figure appears, gratifies their own desire with the person, and then disappears. Now, the individual cannot invoke Article 21 nor claim the status of a victim of sexual assault simply because they are not alive.Now imagine, someone rapes a person…
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Spousal Rape: A Contemporary Understanding
In this article we look at two judgments related to the same sections of the Indian penal law namely, marital rape; one judgment from the High Court of Karnataka dated 23 March 2022,; being Writ Petition 48367 of 2018[i]; (clubbed with other petitions) and one from the High Court of Chhattisgarh, being CRA No. 891/2019…