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Prayer in the Writ Petition:
- To issue writ in the nature of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or directions, to declare Gender Specific Sections of IPC 375 & IPC 376 null, void and unconstitutional as per Article 13(2) of Indian Constitution as in current form IPC 375 & 376 are ultra-vires Articles 21 and 14 of Constitution of India, as after Right to Privacy Ruling where consent and bodily integrity of each citizen is now fundamental rights as a part of the freedoms and are intrinsic part of right to life and personal liberty under Article 21 and female and male both have equality before law and equal protection of law under Article 14 guaranteed by Part III of the Constitution.
- To issue writ in the nature of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or directions, using Doctrine of Pari Materia to replace the IPC 375 and IPC 375 with Gender Neutral IPC 375 and IPC 376 of The Criminal law(amendment) Ordinance 2013 dated 3nd February 2013, No 3 of 2013, published in The Gazette of India (Extraordinary), as gender neutral IPC 375 and IPC 376 was enacted on the same subject but at different time, were law of the land from 3rd February 2013 to 1st April 2013 .
- To issue writ in the nature of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or directions, to declare The Criminal law(Amendment) Act 2013 dated 2nd April 2013, No 13 of 2013, published in The Gazette of India (Extraordinary), null, void and unconstitutional as per Article 13(2) of Constitution of India, as Indian Parliament by applying the Act Retrospectively[Ex Post Facto] from 3rd February 2013 did something beyond power vested on it and violated human rights of citizens and denied the people gender neutral laws(IPC 375, 376, 376D, 354A, 354C, 354D) of ordinance along with other specifics of law of the land as per the ordinance which was effective from 3rd February 2013 to 1st April 2013, thereby making the Criminal Amendment Act dated 2nd April 2013 ultra vires Article 20(1), 14 and 21 of Constitution of India.
A notice has been served to the Union of India by the Hon’ble Chief Justice of Delhi High Court. Next date of hearing is 23 October 2017
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News titled "The Truth About Men, Women And "Three women raped man, 23, for THREE days issue of women 'raping' men in Britain" sexually assaulted almost as often as women" Report titled " Victims of Sexual Violence: Victimization Perpetrated by Women More Partner Violence, Sexual Violence, & Stalking The era of Gender Neutral Rape/Sexual Assault law in Republic of India Gender Neutral "Ordinance Act" and was deemed to have come force on 3 from Sexual Assault (POSCO Act) till they are 17 Years 364 Days 23 Hours thereby violating Article 21 of Constitution of India as No Gender Neutral Cases could be filed(Petitioner never heard any Sexual Assault Case of WRIT PETITION UNDER ARTICLE 226 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA Reforms, Gender Equality through Gender neutrality etc.
21 and female and male both have equality before law and equal replace the IPC 375 and IPC 375 with Gender Neutral IPC 375 of India (Extraordinary), as gender neutral IPC 375 and IPC 376 C DEFINITION OF RAPE (ALSO CALLED SEXUAL ASSAULT) D RAPE (SEXUAL ASSAULT) LAWS AROUND THE WORLD E MEN RAPED (FORCED TO PENETRATE) BY WOMEN SOME G CAUSE OF ACTION (For Declaring Rape Laws Gender Neutral) H GROUNDS (For Declaring Rape Laws Gender Neutral) are protected from Sexual Assault (POSCO Act) till they are 17 Years memberships of any vested interest Women's Association or Men's All, but only selected few men and women organizations, for their own male and female and whether perpetrator/victim is male or female .
there are some crooked, wicked men and women who want sex all the Gender equality, also known as sexual equality, is the state of "Gender equality, equality between men and women, entails the concept that all human beings, both men and women, are free to and needs of women and men are considered, valued and It does not mean that women and men have to treatment for women and men, according to their respective Gender equality is the goal, while gender neutrality and gender UNICEF says gender equality "means that women and men, and That, as per Wikipedia " Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out rape or sexual assault laws written in gender-neutral language, 27 had rape laws that were completely gender-specific (i.e., the perpetrator was defined as male and the victim as female) and 6 had partly gender- neutral laws (the perpetrator was defined as male and the victims could DL refers to separate rape laws for men and women, the E MEN RAPED(FORCED TO PENETRATE) BY WOMEN SOME "Three women 'raped man, 23, for THREE days'(Emphasis Added) after A GANG of women kidnapped a man and raped him for three days while Lawless can also be subject to Male Rape by Female.
research focuses on the hidden issue of women 'raping' men in Britain" Men forcing women to have sex is called rape, but experts have turned their attention to the hidden issue of women forcing men in the United "The offence of rape can only be committed by men due to the experiencing sexual violence by women the presumed inability of women to overpower men due to their "weaker" physical stature which because men are taught to value and enjoy sex they must view all sexual reveals that men are sexually assaulted almost as often as women" In asking 40,000 households about rape and sexual percent of rape and sexual violence victims.
had often wondered whether incidents of sexual violence against men that jail is a place where sexual violence against men is routine but not experience of men and women is "a lot closer than any of us would For some kinds of victimization, men and women women the victims.
Sexual Victimization of Men in America: New Data Challenge Old women and 1.267 million men claiming to be victims of sexual violence.
historically used sexual violence to subjugate women and that in most portraying sexual violence against men as aberrant, we prevent justice "Victims of Sexual Violence: Statistics" is an eye-opener and speak Millions of men in the United States have been victims of rape: 1 out of every 10 rape victims are male.
victims of attempted or completed rape, one can imagine the of all rape victims are male in the USA.
UCLA School of Law, published a report "Research Finds Sexual Victimization Perpetrated by Women More Common than Previously female sexual perpetration is more common than previously recognized.
Sexual victimization by women perpetrators occurs mostly against men The research, published in a paper titled "Sexual Victimization sexual victimization are essential to ensuring that professionals responding to sexual victimization address it appropriately.
heterosexist stereotypes, such as the idea that only men are sexual perpetrators and that women are incapable of sexual abuse, interfere with complex understandings of sexual victimization.
" Sexual victimization perpetrated by men remains a serious, ongoing estimates of the prevalence of female sexual perpetration than has been Prevention, the report finds that women and men reported a However, the majority of male victims report female by women: 79.2 percent of victimized men reported female Heterosexual male victims were much more likely to report non-rape sexual victimization by a female perpetrator in their victims were less likely to report such abuse by a female (14.8 percent) or bisexual (12.5 percent) women victims.
male victims and 41.4 percent of female victims reported that Among adult prisoners reporting staff sexual victimization, 80.0 Gay and bisexual men and lesbian and bisexual women in prison were 2-3 times more likely to report prison staff sexual juveniles reporting staff sexual victimization, 89.3 percent should be used to comprehensively address sexual victimization in all Violence, Sexual Violence, & Stalking Rape as Men were also made Forced to Penetrate against their will.
Intimate partner violence is widespread: 1 in 4 Women and 1 in 9 Men were victims of contact sexual violence*, physical violence, * Contact sexual violence includes rape, being made to penetrate, sexual coercion, Sexual violence affects women and men: About 1 in 3 women and nearly 1 in 6 men were victims of contact sexual violence at Nearly 23 million women and 1.7 million men have been the victims of rape or attempted rape at some point in their lives.
is reality but Men's Rape Marital, as well as Non Marital, is also a hard appears to suggest that gender neutrality in rape is inconsistent with recognition of male rape, while at the same time being unambiguously committed to the needs of female rape victims.
The recognition of male rape and sexual assault does not undermine male victimization, in fact, supports feminist arguments concerning male Jeanne Gregory and Sue Lees have noted that male and female rape For example, in her groundbreaking study of female rape, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, Susan Brownmiller was also as men may invade women through their orifices, so, too, do they rape; that is, men rape women and men can never be victimized, or if objections to gender neutrality in rape, overriding the reality of rape and not designed to make gender irrelevant in our understanding of sexual the main victims of sexual violence and males the main perpetrators, That, Gender neutrality within rape is an evidence-led means of acknowledgement that men can be victims of rape, and that women can understanding of male rape and sexual assault has grown so "contested of how the legal process deals and should deal with male victims of rape That, it would appear that those opposed to gender neutrality within rape incorrectly assume that the concept means ignoring gender in rape and However, in the context of rape, gender neutrality is neither undermining the substantive equality of women nor are women that the rape law must be gender neutral and replaced the term with the offence of rape gender neutral.
Men, therefore, must be entitled to the same rights as women.
though male rape is a less frequent occurrence than female rape, they notions of denial and assist male and female victims in seeking support That, the social stigma that women victims face is a harsh fact of reality If a male alleges that female raped him, he is not seen as a "Real Man" about 90-95% of men who are raped do not report it.
like females are afraid of reporting rapes.
of Gender Neutral Rape Laws in Progressive Countries coupled with Female on Male Rape facts, startling statistics and general analysis of Rape does affect men adversely.
consequences for men and women, looking at rape purely through its Gender-neutral rape laws are extremely unlikely to be used against claim gender neutrality harms women.
gender neutrality harmed women or meant the exclusion of issues of gender from discussions about rape, they would have a justifiable rape that does not consider all issues relating to gender and the realities of sexual violence faced by both women and men.
Also, as what to constitute Marital Rape and what would constitute dignity and bodily integrity Gender Neutral rape laws will afford a more across the rape of all genders, it is the lack of consent), and by doing rape laws may actually leave women better off.
gender to consider in understanding the causes of rape in our It is high time that the reality of sexual victimization for all those who but not at the cost of recognizing the reality of rape for all its victims and G CAUSE OF ACTION (For Declaring Rape Laws Gender Neutral) H GROUNDS (For Declaring Rape Laws Gender Neutral) Because, Article 14 of Constitution of India says "Equality before law Equality before law is a negative concept; equal protection of laws is a RAPE LAWS/SEXUAL VIOLENCE LAWS FROM 3 FEBRUARY 2013 TO 1 APRIL 2013, THAT IS 58 DAYS due to Gender Neutral IPC 375, BECAUSE, in Ordinance 2013, IPC 375 Rape definition was {"A person is said to commit "sexual assault'' if that person} gender neutral As Gender Neutral IPC 375, 376 were laws of the land from 3 February Gender Neutral Sexual Assault.
Gender Neutral Cases could be filed(Petitioner never heard any Sexual Article 21 and female and male both have equality before law and equal 375 with Gender Neutral IPC 375 and IPC 376 of The Criminal published in The Gazette of India (Extraordinary), as gender neutral IPC The Truth About Men, Women And Libido In case you missed the memo, women are sex-withholding prudes and men are sex-crazed baboons ready to bang Let's get this out of the way right off the bat: Men do seem to be, on the whole, more sexually keyed up than women.
One survey out of Florida State University found that men have more spontaneous sexual arousal and more Yet, this hardly means that all men want sex nonstop, while all women would rather watch Desperate Housewives Women and Sexual Heat thought to be the key hormone underlying sexual desire in both men and women than estradiol, the most potent Men and Sexual Heat behavior, even to the point of being funny (men, so frisky, haha!; women, so frigid, haha!).
sexual assault laws written in gender-neutral language, 27 had rape laws that were male and the victims could be male or female) seriousness of the assault, "sexual assault of the first degree" usually being DL refers to separate rape laws for men and women, the punishment Three women 'raped man, 23, for THREE days' after A GANG of women kidnapped a man and raped him for three days while force-feeding him energy drinks, police Rapes on men in South Africa are often not reported by the victim.
Captain Wellback said: "The South African Police Service take all sexual offences seriously regardless of the gender "We assure all victims of these types of sexual crimes that they we will carry out robust investigations to bring all the Any other victims of the female rape gang have been asked to come forward.
Last year three women were arrested for luring a man to a house in Durban, South Africa, and raping him after He was raped by all three women in the car at gunpoint.
Nearly 20% of all sexual violations reported to South African police were on men.
The previous May a man was kidnapped in Kwazakhele, Port Elizabeth, by three women in a black BMW and raped Reese Mann, director of the South African Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse, said nearly 20 per cent of all sexual He said: "Male victims of sexual abuse are much less likely than their female counterparts to report sexual abuse Police are urging any other victims of the female rape gang or any witnesses to come forward.
A woman has been charged with rape after it was alleged that she sexually assaulted a taxi driver at knifepoint.
UKresearch focuses on the hidden issue of women 'raping' Men forcing women to have sex is called rape, but experts have turned their attention to the hidden issue of women New research at Lancaster University reveals that many men have been forced by women to penetrate them using Considered a first of its kind research examining the extent of men who have been "forced to penetrate" women, the "Rape" was the most frequent label used to describe the ordeal, despite the law not recognising such cases in this "The offence of rape can only be committed by men due to the requirement of penile penetration of the victim.
stereotypes around men experiencing sexual violence by women the presumed inability of women to overpower because men are taught to value and enjoy sex they must view all sexual opportunities with women as positive A new study reveals that men are sexually assaulted almost For some kinds of sexual victimization, men and women have roughly equal experiences about rape and sexual violence, the survey uncovered that 38 percent of incidents were against men.
5 and 14 percent of rape and sexual violence victims.
sexual violence against men were under-reported.
place where sexual violence against men is routine but not counted in the general national statistics.
The experience of men and women is For some kinds of victimization, men and women have roughly victimization," and especially our fallback model that men are always the perpetrators and women the victims.
Chicago reported 86,767 cases of rape but used its own broader definition, so the FBI left out the Chicago stats.
her new paper, " The Sexual Victimization of Men in America: New Data Challenge Old Assumptions ," co-written with nonconsensual sexual contact basically equalized, with 1.270 million women and 1.267 million men claiming to be victims of sexual violence.
that if a man has an erection he must want sex, especially because we assume men are sexually insatiable.
and dysfunction among male victims of sexual abuse backs this up.
sexual crimes against men are still rare.
example, turned up that 46 percent of male victims reported a female perpetrator.
sexual assault, should these new findings alter our national conversation about rape? who fully understands that men have historically used sexual violence to subjugate women and that in most By portraying sexual violence against men as aberrant, we prevent justice and compound the shame.
conversation about men doesn't need to shut down the one about women.
Victims of Sexual Violence: Statistics On average, there are 321,500 victims (age 12 or older) of rape and sexual assault each year in the United Ages 12-34 are the highest risk years for rape and sexual assault.
Those age 65 and older are 92% less likely than 12-24 year olds to be a victim of rape or sexual assault, and Women and Girls Experience Sexual Violence at High Rates Millions of women in the United States have experienced rape.
As of 1998, an estimated 17.7 million American women had been victims of attempted or completed rape.
90% of adult rape victims are female.
Females ages 16-19 are 4 times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault.
Women ages 18-24 who are college students are 3 times more likely than women in general to experience Read more statistics about campus sexual violence .
Men and Boys Are Also Affected by Sexual Violence Millions of men in the United States have been victims of rape.
had been victims of attempted or completed rape.
About 3% of American men or 1 in 33 have experienced an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime.
1 out of every 10 rape victims are male.
Sexual Violence Can Have Long-Term Effects on Victims The likelihood that a person suffers suicidal or depressive thoughts increases after sexual violence.
94% of women who are raped experience symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) during the two 30% of women report symptoms of PTSD 9 months after the rape.
33% of women who are raped contemplate suicide.
13% of women who are raped attempt suicide.
Approximately 70% of rape or sexual assault victims experience moderate to severe distress, a larger Sexual violence also affects victims' relationships with their family, friends, and co-workers.
38% of victims of sexual violence experience work or school problems, which can include significant problems Victims are at risk of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
The average number of rapes and sexual assaults 60% of all sexual violence against inmates is perpetrated by jail or prison staff.
4.3% of active duty women and 0.9% of active duty men experienced unwanted sexual contact in FY14.
Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Crime Victimization of male and female victims in the United States, using a study from 1998.
Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Sexual Assault of Young Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Rape and Sexual Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Female Victims of Sexual Walsh, A prospective examination of post-traumatic stress disorder in rape victims.
Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Sexual Victimization in Department of Defense, Fiscal Year 2014 Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military, (2015).
(AAU), Report on the AAU Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct (September Research Finds Sexual Victimization Perpetrated by Women Research Finds Sexual Victimization Perpetrated by Women More Common than Previously Known A New Journal Article Explores Sexual Victimization by Women federal agency data, researchers find that female sexual perpetration is more common The researchers' findings contradict the common belief that female sexual perpetration Sexual victimization by women perpetrators occurs mostly against men and occasionally against women.
The research, published in a paper titled "Sexual Victimization Perpetrated by Women: Federal Data Reveal The researchers suggest that inclusive approaches to understanding sexual victimization are essential to ensuring that professionals responding to sexual victimization address it appropriately.
such as the idea that only men are sexual perpetrators and that women are incapable of sexual abuse, interfere with complex understandings of sexual victimization.
"Sexual victimization perpetrated by men remains a serious, ongoing threat," said Lara Stemple.
This is the first study to assess the role of women as perpetrators of sexual abuse in large federal data sets, providing more reliable estimates about the prevalence of female sexual perpetration than has been published in the men reported a nearly equal prevalence of nonconsensual sex in a 12-month period.
However, the majority of male victims report female The form of nonconsensual sex that men are much more likely to experience than women victimized men reported female perpetrators.
Heterosexual male victims were much more likely to report non-rape sexual victimization by a female perpetrator in their lifetime (71.4 percent) than were bisexual men (34.2 percent) or gay men (21.4 percent).
In contrast, heterosexual women victims were less likely to report such abuse by a female perpetrator in their lifetime (5.3 percent) than were lesbian (14.8 percent) or bisexual (12.5 percent) women victims.
Among people reporting rape/sexual assault by a female perpetrator, 57.6 percent of male victims and 41.4 percent of female victims reported that the incident involved an attack whereby the offender Among adult prisoners reporting staff sexual victimization, 80.0 percent reported only female perpetrators.
Gay and bisexual men and lesbian and bisexual women in prison were 2-3 times more likely to report prison staff sexual victimization than their heterosexual counterparts.
victimization, 89.3 percent reported only female perpetrators.
The findings compel a rethinking of long-held stereotypes about sexual victimization and gender.
new, inclusive approaches should be used to comprehensively address sexual victimization in all forms.
The Williams Institute , a think tank on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy, is dedicated to were victims of contact sexual violence*, physical violence, * Contact sexual violence includes rape, being made to penetrate, sexual coercion, and/or unwanted Sexual violence affects women and men.
About in women and nearly in men were victims of contact sexual violence at some point in their lives.
Nearly 23 million women and 1.7 million men have been the victims of rape or attempted rape at some point in their lives.
*Among victims who experienced contact sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime.
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