Title 

Retrospective Analysis of Pattern of Rape Accused Examined at a Tertiary Care Center in South-West Delhi.

Authors

Sahil K Khurana, Abhimanyu Khutell, Munesh Kumar, Aditya Anand, Lakhan Nalwani

 Abstract

Background: According to WHO, sexual violence is defined as “any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act, unwanted sexual comments or advances, or acts to traffic or otherwise directed against a person`s sexuality using force, coercion, by any person regardless of their relationship to the victim, in any setting, including but not limited to home or work. It is regarded as a under-reported pandemic. Material & Methods: We carried out a retrospective study analysing the pattern of Sexual assault done by the Rape Accused brought by the Police at a tertiary care center in South-West Delhi for medico-legal examination. Results: We analysed three year data with a total cases amounting to 144 cases maintaining strict confidentiality, of which most common age of the accused was 25-35 years i.e. 60 cases(41.66%), 50 cases(34.72%) were friends/live in partners with regarding relationship to the victim, 119 cases(82.64%) reported after 48 hours of alleged sexual assault for medicolegal examination, In 46 cases(31.94%) method used to subdue victim was false belief of marriage, Peno-Vaginal penetration was reported in 125 cases(86.80%). Conclusion: Special emphasis must be given to Acquaintance Rape as it is an emerging problem in developed countries like America and government should raise campaigns and psychological counselling centres for early grapple of this prevailing sexual assault problems in the society.

keywords 

Sexual Violence, Sexual Abuse, Sex Related Crime, Peno-vaginal Penetration, Offender.

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