A trial court in Uttar Pradesh s Muzaffarnagar district today CONVICTED 2 accused in a case of gang rape of a woman during the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots under Section 376(2)(g), 376-D and 506 IPC. .
A trial court in Muzaffarnagar on Tuesday convicted two men accused of gang rape of a Muslim woman during the 2013 communal riots in western Uttar Pradesh and sentenced them to 20 years rigorous imprisonment.
THE PASSAGE OF THE CLA REFLECTS THE GROWING INFLUENCE OF INDIAN FEMINISTS
However, feminists ultimately lost out on crucial issues including marital rape, rape by the armed forces, and the age of consent.
Indian feminism has entered a governance mode in light of three parameters, namely an increased reliance on criminal law, a deep commitment to a highly gendered reading of sexual violence and a diluted oppositional stance vis-à-vis state power.
Since Thomas Macaulay’s Indian Penal Code (IPC) was introduced in 1862, its rape provisions have been substantially amended only twice, once in 1983 and then in 2013. In the intervening 30 years between 1983 and 2013, feminists, many from the autonomous phase of the Indian women’s movement (IWM), were highly engaged in rape law reform their long road to the CLA punctuated by several rounds of negotiations and repeated failure.