Gender and Sexuality

2024: Love Jihad – A Socio-Political Weapon: Caste, Endogamy, and Hindutva’s Grip on gender and social boundaries in India

This article examines how "Love Jihad" reinforces caste hierarchies, Hindutva politics, and patriarchal control in India’s 2024 socio-political landscape

Rape allegations become false once marriage is admitted: Allahabad HC

 The HC granted anticipatory bail after noting that the woman clearly got involved in sexual relationship with the man and admitted to marrying him

Tarun Tejpal case: What should a rape survivor look like?

Judgement aquitting Tarun Tejpal of sexual assault, states complainant “did not demonstrate any kind of normative behaviour” that a survivor “might plausibly show”

Goa court acquits journalist Tarun Tejpal in rape case

In 2013, Tejpal was accused of sexually assaulting a junior colleague in a hotel elevator in Goa

NCW seeks expedited probe in Patna Covid patient’s alleged gang rape

The Commission has written to DGP as well as Chief Secretary with regards to the incident

Woman allegedly raped by men who accompanied her from WB to Tikri border

Police, said the victim, who succumbed to Covid, came from West Bengal to Tikri in April with six people from the Kisan Social Army, two of who she accused of rape

UP: Ex-military man alleges physical and sexual assault by Puranpur police!

The man, along with mother and two sisters, was travelling to Likhimpuri for his belated brother-in-law’s last rites, when he was stopped by local police.

I am not fully ‘woke’: Madras HC judge to start psychology sessions to understand same sex relationships

Justice Venkatesh said, “I honestly feel that such a session with a professional will help me understand same-sex relationships better and will pave way for my evolution”

SC recognises how intersection of gender, caste and disability makes one a soft target

While hearing a case realted to the rape of a visually impaired woman from a Scheduled Caste, the court also laid down guidelines on how to deal with complainants with disabilities in their interaction with the judicial system

Not residing with woman does not absolve in-laws of liability in dowry-death cases: Madras HC

 The in-laws of the victim were convicted for the offence of cruelty after which they filed an appeal in the HC

Allahabad HC grants bail to rape accused citing prior consensual sexual relationship

The court also appeared to place onus on minor survivor saying she had "sufficient knowledge" of nature and consequence of sexual activity

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