How Tarun Tejpal was given access to the victim s personal WhatsApp messages to build his defence
Between two courts, the fundamental right of the accused was upheld and the fundamental right of the victim overlooked.
Kartik Kakar
The Goa fast track courtâs verdict, which labelled the testimony of the victim in the Tarunjit Tejpal rape case as not being of âsterling qualityâ, drew heavily from the victimâs WhatsApp chat records. The court had allowed Tejpal to place those chats as material evidence to shoulder the bulk of his defence, which alluded to the victimâs âpropensity to indulge in sexual conversationsâ, past âflirtatiousâ encounters, and post-offence conduct.
Know Your Rights: A woman can lodge FIR at any police station irrespective of place of crime
Know Your Rights: A woman can lodge FIR at any police station irrespective of place of crime
Growing Instances Of Sexual Harassment In The Form Of Rape, Molestation Have Been A Major Concern For Women In Our Society. By : Vivek Arya | Updated on: 18 Nov 2017, 06:21:07 PM
New Delhi:
Growing instances of sexual harassment in the form of rape, molestation have been a major concern for women in our society.
Such horrific offences are on the rise as many culprits go untouched because most women are still unaware of their rights to protect them against such heinous crimes.
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On 1st March, 2021, the Chief Justice of India SA Bobde asked a man accused of raping a minor in 2014 whether he would marry her. The shocking question uttered in the highest Court of the land led.
By Sanjeev Sirohi
Without mincing any words and coming straight to the heart of the matter, let me say this from the bottom of my heart that I fully support the burgeoning demand for making marital rape an offence. A rape is a rape. A husband who is supposed to protect his wife and take care of her in all possible respects if himself starts raping his wife must be awarded the strictest punishment and our laws must be suitably amended to make the laws more stricter and most importantly must make marital rape an offence immediately so that it can be checked! The figure of marital rape exceeds all our wildest imagination but never come in the limelight because very few cases are reported and out of them also less than a handful are registered and here too wife is finally cajoled or compelled by her own family members to relent and move ahead to save the so called institution of marriage from being destroyed which our politicians keep citing as a pretext to not making marital rape an o