Collection of rape evidence in India – an analysis

Abstract

waste. It is no secret that survivors of rape in India are humiliated and discriminated.1 They could face it in their own homes, police stations and then in the hospital where they undergo invasive medical tests that often end up doing little beyond harming their case later in the legal process.2 Females are raped and sexually assaulted more often than males. Male rape is committed by another man, often in prison. Males who are raped are more likely than females to be physically injured, to be unwilling to report the crime, and to have multiple assailants.3 In Indian Penal Code rape is defined in Section 375, according to which the rape is sexual illicit sexual relation with a female which is caused by penetration of penis of a male into vagina of female. As after the Criminal Amendment Act 2013 – Section 375 of Indian Penal Code, 1860 state that: