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Hailakandi (Assam) [India], April 14 (ANI): The Court of Special Judge in Assam's Hailakandi district has sentenced a man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment and slapped a fine of Rs 20,000 for sexually abusing an 11-year-old minor boy four years ago.

New Delhi Feb 21 PTI The Delhi High Court Monday refused to grant more time to the Centre to place its stand on the issue of criminalisation of marital rape saying that it was not possible to defer an ongoing matter endlessly and reserved its judgement on the petitionsThe Centre submitted that it has sent communication to all states and Union Territories seeking their comments on the issue and urged the court that the proceedings be adjourned till such time the inputs are receivedHowever a bench of Justices Rajiv Shakdher and C Hari Shankar said it was not possible to adjourn an ongoing matter as there is no terminal date by when the Centres consultations will be over on the issue and added that it was closing the argumentsWe are closing it then the bench said adding judgement reserved List for directions on March 2 In the meantime counsel for parties may file their written submissions and compliations While the Centre was supposed to begin its submissions on Monday by making its stand clear on the issue Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said the position could only be taken by the central government after consultations with states and other stakeholdersHe said that as this case could have an impact on social and family life with far reaching consequences the Centre can place its stand only after a consultative processThe bench said Court cant let the matter hang like this You can have consultation going on We will hear and reserve the judgement But if you say the court should adjourn the matter endlessly it will not happenThis is a matter which will be closed either through courts channel or legislatures channel As long as there is a challenge before us we will have to go on It is now coming to a situation where we are coming to a log jam When the court asked the law officer to tell whether it has ever happened that a matter of such nature is adjourned for long Mehta said as per his experience not yet and added that there are very few challenges which impact social and family tiesGenerally a legislative enactment is challenged and we take a stand But those are commercial or taxation laws There are very few cases when such wide consequences are found It is therefore our stand that we will be able to put our stand only for consultation he saidThe bench further said when Section 377 unnatural sex of IPC and adultery cases happened in the Supreme Court the court continued the hearingThe more I think about it the more I am convinced that you have to take a stand and close it We are not the last repository of wisdom Someone needs to take a call Justice Shakdher saidThe court said a decisive executive has to say yes or no and no one can stop it from changing its standTo this Mehta said We will say yes or no but after having consultations My instructions are that we will make a stand after consultations The counter affidavits filed earlier not be treated as final version of the Centre and the final version would be after consultation When the Solicitor General said I would not be able to go beyond what is stated in this counter affidavit the bench replied then lets close it after which is being argued now In its affidavit filed during the day the Centre said it is a considered stand of the central government that the stand to be taken before this court by it can only be after consultation with all the state governments and other stakeholdersThis is more so since the issues involved has a direct bearing on the society in general and is a part of Concurrent List of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution said the affidavit filed through central government standing counsel Monika Arora saidIt said the central government has sent a communication on February 10 to the Chief Secretaries of all the State governments Union Territory Administrations as well as to the National Commission for WomenThe Centre is awaiting the response from all of them It is only thereafter that the Centre will be in a position to take a stand before this court it addedThe Central government reiterates its commitment to protect the liberty dignity and rights of every woman It is therefore desirable that the final adjudication by this court in the present batch of petitions be deferred till the view of the stakeholders is received by the Central government the affidavit saidThe court was dealing with a batch of petitions seeking to strike down the exception granted to husbands under the Indian rape lawOn February 7 the high court had granted two weeks to the Centre to state its stand on the petitions seeking criminalisation of marital rapeThe court was hearing PILs filed by NGOs RIT Foundation All India Democratic Womens Association a man and a woman seeking striking down of the exception granted to husbands under the Indian rape lawIn its 2017 affidavit the Centre had opposed the pleas submitting that marital rape cannot be made a criminal offence as it could become a phenomenon that may destabilise the institution of marriage and an easy tool for harassing husbandsHowever the Centre told the court in January that it was re-looking at its earlier stand on the petitions as that was brought on record in the affidavit filed several years agoThe petitioners have challenged the constitutionality of the marital rape exception under Section 375 IPC rape on the ground that it discriminated against married women who are sexually assaulted by their husbands PTI SKV SA

New Delhi Jan 19 PTI The Delhi High Court Wednesday said there was an anomaly and misalignment in the erstwhile Section 377 of the IPC which was decriminalised by the Supreme Court in 2018 and the rape law that protects a husband from prosecution for a non-consensual sexual act including unnatural sex with his wifeThe high court made the observation while hearing of a batch of pleas seeking to criminalise marital rapeA bench of Justices Rajiv Shakdher and C Hari Shankar will continue to hear the submissions on ThursdayDuring the hearing Justice Shakdher said Before decriminalisation of Section 377 punishment for unnatural sex of the IPC and I am talking about heterosexual couples wasnt there misalignment in section 375 and section 377 It is ironic that it continued in happy marriages and no one complainedThe judge further said Apart from the fact that anal sex is part of sexual act and therefore if there is consent that is not rape But in section 377 prior to the Supreme Court judgement that anomaly remained Could he then say that there was consent The court was referring to Section 375 of the IPC which says a man is said to commit rape if he penetrates his penis to any extent into the vagina mouth urethra or anus of a woman or makes her to do so with him or any other person or inserts to any extent any object or a part of the body not being the penis into the vagina the urethra or anus of a woman or makes her to do so with him or any other person Under the exception given in Section 375 of the IPC sexual intercourse or sexual acts by a man with his own wife the wife not being under fifteen years of age is not rapeOn the courts observation amicus curiae and senior advocate Rebecca John said it no longer attracts section 377 of the IPC It is open to plead consentWhen we look at an exception we cannot let an absurdity to prevail she saidAnother amicus curiae and senior advocate Rajshekhar Rao had earlier told the court that apprehensions of misuse and protection of the institution of marriage cannot be a ground to sustain the marital rape exception in the Indian Penal Code IPCHe had said that there was always a possibility of misuse of criminal offences and had the object of the legislation been to protect the institution of marriage wives would not have been given the power to prosecute husbands for any offence including lessor sexual offencesAdditional Solicitor General Chetan Sharma appearing for the Centre had told the court that an informed consultation process to examine the issue of criminalising marital rape has been fast-trackedOn January 17 the court had asked the Centre to clarify its in-principle position on the issue of criminalising marital rape after the government sought time to formulate and place its considered standThe Centre on January 13 had told the high court that it was considering a constructive approach to the issue and has sought suggestions from several stakeholders and authorities on comprehensive amendments to the criminal lawThe bench is hearing PILs filed by NGOs RIT Foundation All India Democratic Womens Association a man and a woman seeking striking down of the exception granted to husbands under the Indian rape lawRao had earlier submitted that a married woman could not be denied the right to prosecute her husband if she believed that she was raped and in case of denial of a conjugal relationship the remedy before the spouse is to file a plea for restitution and not force himself upon herThe central government in its earlier affidavit filed in the case has said that marital rape cannot be made a criminal offence as it could become a phenomenon that may destabilise the institution of marriage and an easy tool for harassing the husbandsThe Delhi government has told the court that marital rape was already covered as a crime of cruelty under the IPCThe petitioners have challenged the Constitutionality of the marital rape exception under section 375 IPC rape on the ground that it discriminated against married women who are sexually assaulted by their husbands PTI SKV SA

Punjab, January 3: A shocking case has come to light from Ludhiana where a 6-year-old boy was allegedly sodomised by youth in Lalto Kalan on Saturday. The accused was arrested within 24 hours, said the police. Tamil Nadu Shocker: Woman Stabs Mother-in-Law to Death, Covers It Up As Fire Accident in Trichy The accused has […]

New Delhi Dec 20 PTI The Delhi High Court Monday upheld the life sentence awarded to a father for enabling sexual assault upon her daughter and said that sexual crimes within a father-daughter relationship descends to depravity and must be dealt with the requisite level of severity A bench headed by Justice Siddharth Mridul stated that crime within the closest confines of the family has the element of sin and to sexually violate an innocent child in any case is an abhorrent act The bench also comprising Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani observed that the offending acts committed by the prosecutrixs so-called uncle with the connivance of her own father went beyond the physical element of sexual assault and caused trauma that might linger for very long It added that it was evident from the prosecutrixs stand that her father consciously and intentionally gave to the so-called uncle a co-convict access to her and also committed upon her acts short of digital penetration This in our view is sufficient to bring the actions of the father within section 34 IPC namely the acts done by him in furtherance of a common intention to commit the offence and would make him liable for all acts committed by appellant A2 uncle in the same manner as if the acts were done by appellant A1 father himself the court said as it upheld the conviction of the father under section 377 unnatural offences read with section 34 common intention of the Indian Penal Code and the sentence of life imprisonment We do not hesitate to repeat to sexually violate an innocent child is in any case an abhorrent act but when that happens within the filial father-daughter relationship of which purity of affection is a sine-qua-non the act descends to a different depth of depravity Without at all appearing to be Biblical crime in society is one thing but crime within the closest confines of the family adds to it the element of sin Such acts must be dealt with the requisite level of severity the court said The court also upheld the conviction and life imprisonment of the co-convict uncle under section 377 read with section 34 IPC Considering the depravity of the acts committed against the prosecutrix by a so-called uncle with the connivance of her own father we are also of the view that the offending acts go way beyond the physical element of sexual assault but would have severely damaged the mind and psyche of the victim which trauma may linger for very long the court said We accordingly uphold the judgment of conviction dated 09102019 to the extent that appellant A1 and appellant A2 are both guilty of the offence under section 377 read with section 34 IPC We accordingly also uphold the sentencing order dated 18102019 to the extent that the learned trial court has sentenced the appellants to imprisonment for life for the offence under section 377 read with section 34 IPC along with fine of Rs10000- each with simple imprisonment of 06 months in default of payment of fine and also granting the benefit of section 428 CrPC it ordered The court refused to sustain the conviction for the alleged commission of an offence under Section 3762g gang rape IPC The father and the uncle who had appealed against their conviction and sentencing by the trial court were found guilty on the basis of the depositions of the several prosecution witnesses in particular the prosecutrixs own testimony and the medical evidence PTI ADS SA

Varanasi, October 27: Police in Varanasi town of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday arrested a 35-year-old man for allegedly sodomising five boys between 11 and 14 years of age. The accused has been identified as Murari Lal. According to the police, Murari is homosexual and had sexually assaulted the boys two months ago on pretext of getting them […]

Islamabad [Pakistan], October 5 (ANI): A Pakistani court has indicted a cleric Mufti Azizur Rehman and his five sons for sexually abusing a student at his madrassah.

New Delhi Sep 24 PTI A Delhi court has upheld the conviction of a man for sodomising an eight-year-old but reduced his jail term from three years to 18 months noting that he was about 19 years of age at the time of the incident and is an illiterate person Dharmender had challenged the May 2019 judgment of a metropolitan magistrate whereby he was convicted under Section 377 unnatural offences sentenced to undergo imprisonment for three years and directed to pay Rs 50000 compensation to the victim Upholding the decision Principal District and Sessions Judge Dharmesh Sharma said the testimony of the minor victim was of a sterling quality and that there is nothing to suggest that the child witness was tutored or had an ulterior motive to falsely implicate the man The judge noted that it is a case where the convict sodomised the minor boy and subjected him to extreme physical and mental pain I find no merit in the appeal and same is accordingly dismissed and the conviction under Section 377 IPC is upheld the judge stated in an order dated September 8 The court then passed the order on his sentence on September 23 The judge however lowered the jail term noting Keeping in mind that the appellant was about 19 years of age at the time of the incident and he is an illiterate person the sentence of rigorous imprisonment for three years is reduced to a period of 18 months The convict who is now a daily wager has already served a jail term of eight months and 13 days as per the judicial records He was sent to judicial custody in June 2008 and was released on bail in February 2009 The sessions judge further said that he is not inclined to grant him the benefit of Section 41 of the Probation of Offenders Act This section provides for the release of certain offenders on probation According to the prosecution the incident occurred on the evening of March 16 2008 when Dharmender sexually assaulted the minor in a house in a village in West Delhi The eight-year-old victim was playing with water balloons the convict took him away gagged his mouth and sexually assaulted him as a result of which he experienced pain according to his testimony The elder brother of the victim also corroborated his version He stated that his brother went to Dharmenders house to fill water in the balloons but after some time he heard his cries following which he disclosed that the convict did some wrong thing with him Dharmender ran away from the spot evaded arrest and finally surrendered before the metropolitan magistrate following which he was arrested on June 7 2008 PTI AAK SA

Islamabad [Pakistan], September 20 (ANI): A Pakistani cleric and former Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) leader Mufti Azizur Rehman lured his student and committed sexual acts with him for three years with promises of helping him in passing exams, a police investigation revealed on Monday.