Peggy Reeves Sanday’s research on societies without rape offers profound insights into the complex interplay between culture, gender, and violence, fundamentally challenging prevailing assumptions about the inevitability of sexual violence. Her extensive ethnographic work categorizes societies into “rape-prone” and “rape-free,” revealing that rape is not a universal feature of human behaviour but rather a cultural […]
Politics of Rape in India: An Altercation Between Justice and Power
Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia Director at Human Rights Watch, has spoken out on what she claims are politicized cases and this leads to a clash between public support and the need for justice in India. Ganguly asserts that rape cases are influenced or controlled by politics in India, where police officers occasionally decline to take […]
Allahabad High Court dismisses application for quashing of Summoning order in rape trial
On July 12th 2024, the Allahabad High Court at Lucknow rejected an application for quashing an order summoning the accused in a criminal trial on charges of rape. In delivering this judgment, Honourable Justice Abdul Moin observed that the claims made by accused in the application were due to a personal vendetta against the prosecutrix […]
Marital Rape : An Unidentified Crime
– This post is written by Manini Shah, a student of Symbiosis Law School, Noida Despite the increased attention that the topic of marital rape has garnered over the last two decades, the literature in this area is still sparse. When it came to the situation in India, the idea of Marital Rape was always […]
