India: 38,947 Cases of Rape Were Reported 2016; At Least 25% Were False

lostapwbm · 2019-02-11T07:19:08+00:00

That this appeared in the Guardian is mind-blowing:

According to the National Crime Records Bureau, a total of 38,947 rape cases were reported in India in 2016. In 10,068 cases – about a quarter – the women claimed it was rape on false promise of marriage. In Andhra Pradesh state, 45% of all rape cases filed in the past two years fell into the false marriage category.

“When a relationship ends, women who have had consensual sex make false accusations of rape under promise of marriage out of vengefulness, to hurt the man. Or they do it to extort money out of him, promising to withdraw the charge if he gives them what they want,” says lawyer Vinay Sharma.

Sitting in his tiny chambers in Dwarka, Sharma, who is handling 90 such cases, gestures discreetly to two families waiting for him on the other side of the glass partition. “The girl’s family has agreed to withdraw the charge in return for 500,000 rupees (£5,400),” he says. “Tell me, would any parent settle for money rather than justice if she’s really been raped?”

In many cases, false rape accusations are simply the result of parents covering up the “shame” of an unmarried daughter having sex. Research carried out in 2015 by journalist Rukmini Shrinivasan, who worked for the Hindu newspaper at the time, revealed that when parents discover their unmarried daughters are in a sexual relationship, their horror at potential “dishonour” to the family name leads many to make spurious allegations of rape, having first bullied their children into submission.

2019-02-11T08:33:55+00:00

Seema Misra, a lawyer in New Delhi, says that false cases under breach of promise to marry are a “huge” issue, one that she finds upsetting. “There is a limit to how far women can portray themselves as victims. At some point we have to take responsibility for our actions – 90% of the cases I have seen are false,” she says.

90%. Not 2-3%. 90.

s0ulfire · 2019-02-11T11:06:48+00:00

Welcome to India. Where men are treated like dirt and woman are entitled DOBs.

theanchorman05 · 2019-02-11T11:30:04+00:00

And yet the rest of the world are so retarded that they buy into the western propaganda that portrays India as the rape capital of the world, when in reality there are many countries including western ones who are worse and have more actual rape per capita.

SC2sam · 2019-02-11T07:34:22+00:00

Oh and a large number of those who are falsely accused are then hunted down by large mobs and murdered. It's so rampant the government has taken numerous measures to try to stop it.

svenskbitch · 2019-02-11T17:44:43+00:00

To clarify: this article, from an outlet firmly on the progressive left on gender issues, discusses rape accusations founded on the explicit or implicit promise of marriage. They make up a quarter of reports, and the Supreme Court now appears to have taken action against it. They are, as a result, not strictly speaking "false".

Title	India: 38,947 Cases of Rape Were Reported 2016; At Least 25% Were False
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Date	February 11, 2019 7:18 AM UTC (7 years ago)
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