New Delhi: Penal provisions on rape have been misused by some women who develop consensual physical relationship with their lovers and after the breakup file false rape cases to force them to marry them, the Delhi High Court has said. Justice Kailash Gambhir said rape law was often misused by women as weapon for "vengeance and vendetta" to harass and blackmail their male friends by filing false cases to extort money and to force them to marry them.
"Many of the cases are being reported by those women who have consensual physical relationship with a man but when the relationship breaks due to one reason or the other, the women use the law as a weapon for vengeance and personal vendetta to extort money and sometimes even to force the boy to get married to them," the court said in a recent order.
"Out of anger and frustration, they tend to convert such consensual sex as an incident of rape, defeating the very purpose of the provision," Justice Gambhir said, while hearing a case related to a woman's complaint against her lover in Rani Bagh area on July 13, 2012.
The rape complaint was filed against Rohit Chauhan, who was allegedly in a relationship with the woman for three years. The court said that in many cases the woman first agrees to have consensual sex but she files a rape case against her boyfriend when the relationship breaks up in order to "force him to get married,
10:22 PM, May 25, 2013
Jaipur: A Kerala Police team on Saturday arrived in Rajasthan's capital Jaipur with former Odisha police chief's son Bitti Mohanty, who jumped parole in 2006 while serving a sentence in a jail here for raping a German tourist. Mohanty, son of former Indian Police Service officer BB Mohanty, was brought to Jaipur in the morning and taken to the Central Jail, a Rajasthan Police officer said. "He will be presented...
09:14 PM, May 25, 2013
Patna: Thirty-five people, including 20 women, were arrested from a Bihar village on Saturday on charges of burning the husband of a village head over a land dispute, police said. Jainandan Mandal, husband of Kishanpur Baluwa village head Chimo Devi, was first beaten up and then thrown into his brick kiln in Kurkron village in Purnia district, about 350 km from Patna, on Friday. "Police have arrested 35 people in...
02:01 PM, May 25, 2013
Patna: A friend of a woman who was gangraped by three men in Bihar has married the survivor, police said on Saturday. Four days after the 22-year-old woman was gangraped and her friend beaten up by three men in the state's Banka district, the survivor's friend married her at a temple late on Friday. "The wedding was solemnised in a simple way at the temple in the presence of dozens...
01:13 PM, May 25, 2013
Muzaffarnagar: A man and his daughter were arrested for allegedly sacrificing a four-year-old boy at Naheri village in Muzaffarnagar, police said on Saturday. The body of Vishal with nail-marks and other injuries was found last evening, they said. Locals have alleged that the duo performed some exorcism ritual as they wanted to improve their economic condition through the exercise, police said. A case of murder has been registered against the...
12:22 PM, May 25, 2013
Lucknow: A mother and her three-year-old daughter were killed in Uttar Pradesh late on Friday after they jumped off a speeding truck while resisting a sexual assault by the driver, police said Saturday. The incident took place near the Chitaura toll plaza in Fatehpur, 120 km from Lucknow, after Raj Kumari, 30, along with son Deepak, daughter Meena and husband Rakesh hitched a ride in a truck. After travelling for...
11:28 AM, May 25, 2013
Ahmedabad: Ahmedabad Crime Branch on Saturday arrested bookie Vinod Mulchandani from the Satellite Area of the Gujarat city. Rs 1.28 crore in cash, laptops and mobile phones were seized from his possession. Some gold biscuits have too been seized from him. Mulchandani was working with a Mumbai based bookie identified as "LC". Mulchandani was involved in betting on IPL matches, and as of now, there is no connection of him...
10:32 AM, May 25, 2013
Annapolis: President Barack Obama urged the future leaders of the US military on Friday to stamp out sexual assault from their ranks, warning that a few individuals could undermine the strongest military in the world. Addressing the graduating class of the US Naval Academy, Obama used his commencement speech to take on a problem that has dogged the Pentagon and the White House in recent weeks. "We must acknowledge that...
06:25 AM, May 25, 2013
Shimla: Expressing concern over rising incidents of crime against women and children, President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday called for effective measures to ensure their safety and security. Underlining the need for arresting the moral decline in society, the president told students of Himachal Pradesh University here to find answers for reversing the degradation of values. Favouring imparting moral and quality education, he said: "Our universities have the capability to shape...
03:55 AM, May 25, 2013
New Delhi: A Naval Board of Inquiry on Friday started probe into the charges made by the wife of a senior Navy officer that she was being forced by her husband into getting "sexually involved" with his colleagues. The BoI venue was shifted from Karwar in Karnataka to Delhi and during the day-long proceedings, the two sides, the woman and her husband, who is a Navy officer, questioned each other,...
10:24 PM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: A man allegedly raped a class 10 student living in his neighbourhood inside her home in Delhi's Vivek Vihar colony. The heinous crime took place when the girl was alone at home as here family members had gone out. The victim has alleged that her neighbour forcefully entered her house and raped her. According to sources, family members lodged the complaint when the girl narrated the entire incident...
02:21 PM, May 24, 2013
Badaun: Son of a Samajwadi Party leader was sentenced to life imprisonment and a penalty of Rs one lakh was also imposed on him by a local court in Badaun for raping a teenaged girl. The 15-year-old victim was raped by Varun Bharadwaj alias Chinu, son of former SP block head Patanjali Bhardwaj, in Alapur area on December 27, 2010, prosecution counsel Gyan Swaroop Gupta said. After hearing both the...
12:25 PM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday informed the Delhi High Court that departmental enquiry has been initiated against seven policemen in connection with the December 16 gangrape of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in New Delhi. Those policemen, who were manning the PCR van in the locality through which the bus had passed, have also come under the scanner of enquiry. Appearing for Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA),...
04:06 AM, May 24, 2013
Thane: The Thane city police arrested a doctor from a hospital on Wednesday for allegedly molesting a patient, the police said on Thursday. Sub-inspector AP Daundkar of the Naupada police station told PTI on Thursday that the patient, a 45-year-old housewife, had got herself admitted to the Sahayog Hospital in the Naupada locality. Allegedly, on Tuesday when nurses had left for the day, the accused who was on the night...
01:46 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: Bollywood producer Pooja Bhatt is auctioning off a role in one of her next Hindi-language films to help raise money to reduce rising cases of violence against women in India, the charity Oxfam has said. The opportunity, organised by Oxfam's partner Scottish Circle, is available to people in Scotland, where the highest bidder will win the chance to star in a film that will be screened to millions....
07:17 PM, May 23, 2013
Nashik: Five persons were arrested for allegedly betting on the IPL matches during a raid at a bungalow in Nashik, the police said on Thursday. Acting on a tip-off, the police raided the Sai Palace bungalow in the city on Wednesday night and arrested the five bookies, Assistant Commissioner of Police Pankaj Rahane said. Ten mobile phones, a laptop and other betting related material were also seized from the place,...
02:35 PM, May 23, 2013
The Ghaziabad police has arrested a man identified as Rahul, the former driver of businessman Satish Goel, for allegedly killing him and six other members his family. The seven people were killed late on Tuesday night in Ghaziabad. ...
02:30 PM, May 23, 2013
Ghaziabad: The Ghaziabad police has arrested a man identified as Rahul, the former driver of businessman Satish Goel, for allegedly killing him and six other members his family. The seven people were killed late on Tuesday night in Ghaziabad. Sources say Rahul carried out the murders as an act of revenge because he was sacked from his job as a driver by Goel for an alleged theft in the house....
11:28 AM, May 23, 2013
Islamabad: "You're going to lose," a brave woman told one of the two machete-wielding London attackers who killed a soldier. "You're going to lose. It's only you versus many," said Ingrid Loyau-Kennett as she tried keep the attacker talking so he would not kill anyone else. Two men carrying weapons brutally assaulted and killed the soldier in Woolwich in southeast London on Wednesday afternoon. The two attackers were later shot...
11:16 AM, May 23, 2013
Imphal: It has been 55 years since the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) was first introduced. The longest demonstration against it has been on in Manipur with Irom Sharmila on a fast for over 12 years now. This April, Rashida Manjoo, the United Nations envoy on Violence Against Women listened to a group of 40 women, including the mother of Manorama Devi. In 2004, Manorama, a 32-year-old was...
08:41 AM, May 23, 2013
