Recent news of chief justice of India Mr Balakrishnan supporting choice of rape victim to marry the accused has shocked several among public. http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3687586 "Due regard must be given to their personal autonomy since in some cases the victim may choose to marry the perpetrator or choose to give birth to a child conceived through forced intercourse," Balakrishnan said. This kind of social engineering through judicial discretion is deplorable. It seems a possible reason for such views is that even Supreme Court is unable to find with any confidence the truth in rape allegations, what given the fact that a woman can always accuse later that she did not consent; or she was promised marriage etc; and that compounded with shoddy … [Read more...] about CJI views on rape reflect failure of judiciary
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Husband can’t rape wife, but you can marry woman you raped!
No. I did not make that one up. Read the news below, and figure out for yourselves: http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_husbands-can-t-get-away-with-marital-rape-government_1356512 Should a rape victim be allowed to marry the man who destroyed her self-esteem? “Yes,” feels chief justice of India KG Balakrishnan. “No,” indicates popular wisdom. As the world celebrates International Women’s Day on Monday, the government plans to protect women from all possible tormentors, including their husbands, by introducing “marital rape” as a separate provision under the proposed new law against rape and sexual assault. I could say as in the IDEA advertisement -- “kya idea hai sirji”, except in this case it is hardly funny. If one thinks about the 2 diametrically opposite views expressed … [Read more...] about Husband can’t rape wife, but you can marry woman you raped!
Indian woman thinks of marriage as pious bonding, but sex before marriage is ok!
A recent Delhi High Court judgment has ruled that having sex with fiancée and then breaking off engagement will be taken as crime of rape. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Sex-with-false-promise-of-marriage-is-rape-HC/articleshow/5525620.cms Justice V K Jain refused to grant bail to the man, Nishant (name changed), who had filed a petition for anticipatory bail in a case where he is accused of raping a girl who was approved by his family and had even got engaged to him. On one hand society is getting permissive in terms of sex, what with 3-4 sex surveys being done every year in weekly magazines, reality shows where women mouth obscenities as much as men do; so it would seem that at least in urban India, women are not the coy stuff they were supposed to be earlier and … [Read more...] about Indian woman thinks of marriage as pious bonding, but sex before marriage is ok!