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No, Mamata Banerjee, even if the 14-year-old girl was pregnant because of ‘love affair’, that is still statutory rape

Dibakar Dutta - 12 April, 2022

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has recently courted controversy after she tried to downplay allegations of brutal rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl as a 'love affair' gone wrong.

News Reports

Political analyst Abdul defends rape joke by Congress MLA Ramesh Kumar, had earlier said Kamlesh Tiwari deserved to be murdered

OpIndia Staff - 17 December, 2021

I am a first-time woman. And I cannot tolerate a lawmaker talking in this kind of language," Navika Kumar snapped.

News Reports

Rajasthan DGP blames ‘internet’ and ‘curiosity’ in youth for rising rape cases in the country, Congress-ruled state tops the list

OpIndia Staff - 5 October, 2020

As per the latest NCRB data, Rajasthan has highest number of recorded rape cases in 2019.

Social Media

‘Romantic Rape’: Read how an Odia TV channel was caught promoting a talk show that was ‘romanticizing’ rape

OpIndia Staff - 6 July, 2020

Further in the clip, the male actor tries to explain to the female actor that a rape scene cannot be romantic and he always wanted to be a 'hero', not a villain. To which the female actor replies, "so you wanted to do a romantic rape scene, not a usual rape scene like the villains do".

Crime