International Journal of Contemporary Research in Multidisciplinary

Abstract:

“God creates a person without discrimination of gender”

Rape is one of the most heinous crimes against a women's body and civilized society. In the ancient period, rape was a crime against men and not against women since women were treated as the property of men. It was the first rape law known as Hamuurabi law which was coded to punish the offender by the king of Babylon/Mesopotamia. Before the passing of the Indian Penal Code 1860 by the colonial government, there was no rape law existed to punish the rapist. Rape may define; wanted, consensual, forcefully, battering, social rape, and non-consensual sexual acts or further acts of the man towards a woman and other man also. As per the demand of the civil society from time to time, the Government of India amended the law to punish the offender. After the incident of Nirbhaya and amendments in the Criminal laws in 2013 year on the recommendation of Justice Verma's committee, rape law was not limited only to penetration of the penis and was defined more extended so that any offenders who commit such crime, could not escape from the law and the same was adopted in the section 63 in the Bhartiye Nayay Sahita 2023. This research aims to find out the gap in the present existing rape laws and suggested through this study to amend the existing rape law for shielding women from the offense and offender and demands from the government to set up a gender-neutral law so that offenders must punish, belongs to any gender, if they commit any such offense.

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Rape Laws in India, Gender Neutral, Violation of Indian Constitution, Ancient Rape Laws.

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