Rape victim has right to terminate pregnancy: Allahabad HC
The Allahabad High Court has stated that a woman cannot be forced to give birth to the child of a man who has sexually assaulted her.
The Allahabad High Court has stated that a woman cannot be forced to give birth to the child of a man who has sexually assaulted her.
The Schedule Caste farmer took the extreme step when the police forced a compromise with the perpetrators of the kidnapping and rape of his minor daughter.
The Supreme Court on Monday said that anybody who conducts the two-finger test on rape survivors would be guilty of misconduct, and declared the invasive procedure as 'patriarchal and unscientific', which also re-victimises and re-traumatises the women.
The police have lodged an FIR against three people and efforts are underway to arrest them.
Rama Rao, who is also the TRS Working President, paid a visit to the victim's parents at the Niloufer Children's Hospital, which is run by the government.
A single-judge bench of Justice Vibhu Bakhru while granting time to Atul Sengar, the brother of main convict and expelled BJP lawmaker Kuldeep Singh Sengar, slated the matter for further hearing on August 18.
The accused boy (20), who is a resident of the same village as that of the deceased girl (18), used to pass comments on her after the rape.
On Thursday morning, a woman, who had survived a brutal gangrape earlier in March, was assaulted and set ablaze by five men accused in the case in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district.
The CBI was handed over the case by the UP government after an uproar over the alleged effort by the Unnao police to save the BJP MLA.
The father of the teenager raped by Asaram on Wednesday expressed satisfaction over the Jodhpur court verdict convicting the self-styled…
