Taking an empathetic view of a minor rape victim, the Kerala High Court allowed MTP even though she was 28 weeks pregnant, thereby giving her the right to live with dignity as per the Constitution
With a growing number of women alleging sexual assault by powerful politicians and even the governor of West Bengal, it raises the issue of identity secrecy granted to a rape victim as a protective mechanism enshrined in statute books to prevent any further trauma or indignity
The Supreme Court dismissed a plea of a prosecutrix against the bail granted to the man accused of raping her repeatedly, saying the FIR indicates the two knew each other and continued to have sexual relations and sexual contact repetitively.
The Meghalaya High Court has granted bail to a 21-year-old man accused of raping his mother, who had lodged the FIR alleging that he had raped her in Sohra Police Station, Cherrapunji in the state.
The Kerala High Court set aside the orders of a Sessions Court and allowed the appeal of a woman to conduct DNA test of her child to establish that the accused is the child's biological father, which had been rejected by the Sessions Court.
The Himachal Pradesh High Court has observed that a victim of a sexual offence cannot have any locus standi to approach the Court for quashing of FIR registered for the sexual assault, which she had faced.
A Supreme Court advocate, Alakh Alok Srivastava, has written to the Chief Justice of India, Justice N.V. Ramana, requesting him to take suo motu cognizance of the death of a 24-year-old rape victim, who had set herself ablaze outside the Supreme Court.