New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Renuka Chowdhary has said that any girl who has attained the age of 18 years doesn’t require court’s permission to have sexual intercourse. This was in response to a controversial ruling of a Delhi-based judge that women are “morally and socially bound not to indulge in sexual intercourse before a proper marriage.”
Congress spokesperson Renuka Chowdhary said there was a difference between rape and consensual intercourse. She said it was unfortunate that there is ambiguity over how to differentiate between rape and sex.
Additional sessions judge Virender Bhatt, in a controversial judgment issued earlier this month, had ruled, “Girls are, and if they do so, it would be to their peril and they cannot be heard crying later that it was rape.”
The judgment pertained to a case in which a man had been accused of raping his brother’s sister-in-law. The woman had claimed that the accused had raped her after deviously making her believe that she was his legally-wedded wife.
The judge, who hears the cases of sexual offences against women at the fast-track court, acquitted the accused.
Judge Bhatt in noted that there had been a “very disturbing trend” of false rape cases, where girls “voluntarily elope to explore the greener pastures of bodily pleasure”, and to escape harsh treatment from their parents, they “conveniently fabricate” a false rape case.
He had said that women above the age of 18 years are mature enough to know the implications of their act when they go into a sexual relationship with a man.
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