Name of the Student: Ken Esau Saah

PRN of the Student: 210104071002

Course Name and Code: Penology & Victimology,
XHL 106
Name of the Topic: Victims of Rape

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 “Victims of Rape”
CONTENTS
 What is Rape?
Types of Rape
Cases
Conclusion

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 What is Rape?
 According to Indian Penal Code (IPC) Act 375.
 Rape is forced, unlawful sexual intercourse.
 Without the victim’s “Consent”.
 It can happen to both men and women of any age.

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 Is Rape &
Sexual Harassment similar?
NO
 In sexual harassment, the victims are
physically harmed which showcases male
dominance, whereas,
 In rape, the victims are ravished like an
animal for the fulfillment of desire and lust of
another.

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 Types of Rape
 Acquaintance Rape/ Date Rape
 Spousal Rape
 Gang Rape
 Minor Rape
 College Campus Rape
 Statutory Rape
 Prison Rape
 War Rape
 Rape within the military
 Corrective Rape
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1) Acquaintance Rape/Date Rape:- When the victim &
the rapist know each other. E.g. – Rapes of co-
workers, schoolmates, friends.
2) Spousal Rape:- Rape between a married or a de-facto
couple (who are behaving like a couple but not
married)
3) Gang Rape:- When a group of people participate in
the rape of a single victim.
4) Minor Rape:- When a child is raped by an adult. E.g.
– Parent or close relatives, school teachers, religious
authorities, or therapists.
5) College Campus Rape:- When rape is done inside
college premises by college aged men and women.
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1) Statutory Rape:- Adults engaging in consensual sexual
relations with sexually mature minors under the age of
consent.
2) Prison Rape:- Rapes which happen in prison, mainly
homosexual,(since prisons are separated by sex). Attacker
is most commonly another inmate, but prison guards
may also be involved, primarily in female prisons.
3) War Rape:- During war, rape is often used as means of
psychological warfare in order to humiliate the enemy
and undermine their morale.
4) Rape Within the Military:- When men and women are
sexually harassed in the military.
5) Corrective Rape:- Corrective Rape is a criminal
practice in South Africa, whereby men rape lesbian
women, purportedly as a means of “curing” the woman of
her sexual orientation.

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 CASES
Orissa Nun Rape Case
 Mass Rape in Uttar Pradesh
 Man Raped in Karachi

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 Orissa Nun Rape Case
Date – 25/08/2008
Victim - Sr. Meena Lalita Barwa, 29, Roman Catholic
Nun
Crime location – Janavikas Building, Kandhamal Distt.,
Orissa
Accused – 50 Hindu Extremist of Bajrang Dal
Reasoned – Revenge for the killing of VHP leader Swami
Laxmananda Saraswati

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 CASE DETAILS:-
 The mob dragged her from the place she was hiding to
the diocesan Social Action Center and raped her.
 Father Chellan (a Catholic Priest) who accompanied
her was beaten on resistance.
 Two men stood on either of her hands as another one
destroyed her chastity.
 After that she was forced to parade naked for about
half a kilometer, on resistance she was slapped and
beaten with lathis on her back.
 Instead of stopping the mob, the police stood there
and watched the whole show.
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 ACTIONS TAKEN:-
 After a long painful year of waiting and pleading to
the government of Orissa for CBI Enquiry around 17
people (two of them were leading accused) were
arrested.
 The Final accused was arrested in the 3rd TIP (Test
Identification Parade). The Case is still not closed and
justice is still awaited.

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 Mass Rape in U.P.
Date – 30/07/2007
Victim – Bitana (22), Sadrunnisa (50), Salamunnisa (40),
Shafiqunnisa (23), Khairunnisa (21) and Tajemun, Member’s
of SAIN (Muslim) community, Females and also some
unidentified children.
Crime location – Vill. Dhanni Deeh under Sirsia P.S.,
Shravasti Distt., Eastern Uttar Pradesh
Accused – Members and supporters of PANDIT (Brahim)
Community
Reason – Revenge as a Sain community boy (Saleem
Rahman) eloped with the elder daughter (Vadana Dwivedi)
of the former village Pradhan of Pandit Community.
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 CASE DETAILS:-
 Trouble started on 7th July 2007 when saleem (24) and vandana (18-20) both ran away
from their respective houses together.
 Pandit community members threatened of “dire consequences” to all the villagers if the
girl not returned on 8th family of the leave the village in the same evening.
 Police arrests 4 people and seizes a mobile phone and one TATA walky so that no SOS or
news goes out of the village on 9th evening.
 On 10th July at 8:30 a.m,400-500 people allegedly gathered at the behest of Ashok
Mishra, younger brother of a minister in the UP government.
 Sain people tired to escape but were surrounded by neighboring villagers & forcibly
returned to their village which had only two exit routes. Around 9:30 a.m. more people
gathered with the supporters and started closing in on the village.
 Belongings were looted & men of all ages were beaten severely.
 Around 10 a.m. the foretold “consequences” began to unfold. Crowd started to beat
women with lathis and were told to strip naked. When they plead for mercy crowd
instead caught, stripped and beat them before dragging and raping them in the open and
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 Naked women were crying and running here & there seeking for help.
The drama lasted 6 hours & came to an end around 4:30 p.m. when the
attackers got tired.
 The whole attack was well-planned and systematic as no one received
any kind of head injury or fracture or cut and no one was killed.
ACTIONS TAKEN
 Local congress leader Mohammad Aslam Raini came to the rescue as
he lodged an F.I.R on 11th after organizing press conferences and Rallies
in front of the local police officers.
 Medical Report denied rape but it’s possible because of the delay and
also with the influence of a little Bribe.
 Till date 36 accused have been named in the F.I.T, including the
brother of BSP minister Daddu Mishra by UP police to the High court
on wanting to know the action taken by the police in the case.

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 Man Raped in Karachi
Date – 27/01/2009
Victim – KHALIL,23, Male, Muslim
Crime location – Neelum colony, clifton, Karachi
Accused – 3Women [one Middle Aged, two in their early
20’s]

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CASE DETAILS:-
 ON Jan 27th at at around 11:30 p.m. there women abducted Khalil.
 He was working at the restaurant when 3women came and told him
that they will show him their house in which he has to deliver food
later.
 On the way to their home they gave him some sweet and later reaching
at their place gave him milk after consuming which he became
unconscious.
 When his gained consciousness he found himself tied onto a bed.
 They kept him coin their custody for 4 days and sexually assaulted him
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 When his condition became critical due to multiple discharges, they
dumped him at a desolate place near qayyumabab River. Somehow he
managed to stop a passing motor vehicle as his genitals were bleeding
& he could not walk properly.
 Medico-legal officers Dr Nisar Shah and Dr Aftab channar are
examining him.
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 ACTION TAKEN
 Police is still probing the case and hopes to crack it
soon.
 Asp asad Raza believes that the women belonged to
rich families of Karachi’s Clifton Area.

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