Statutory rape articles
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Unnatural sex with wife not rape, consent immaterial: HC
BHOPAL: Observing that marital rape is not an offence under IPC, Madhya Pradesh HC has ruled that unnatural sex with wife is not rape, and her consent is immaterial in such cases.Justice G S Ahluwalia made the observation while quashing an FIR registered by an estranged wife against her husband under IPC sections 377 (unnatural sex) and 506 (criminal intimidation). In his May 1 order, the judge referred to several judgments of the Supreme Court and high courts, and the definition of rape under...
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Cornwall internet menace had threatened to rape and kill in America
Having sent menacing, indecent, offensive or obscene messages to three men once back home, Samuel Trelawney Hughes had recently served a jail sentence in the US
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NMSP settles lawsuit after officer pleads guilty to rape
GRANTS, N.M. (KRQE) – New Mexico State Police is paying out hundreds of thousands of dollars to a woman who was raped by a former officer when she was in high school and he was her soccer coach. A trusted figure in the community abusing his power and a young girl. "The effects of sexual assault []