The Allahabad High Court upheld a 1983 rape conviction, emphasizing that a survivor’s reliable testimony trumps medical findings about a hymen’s condition. Justice Santosh Rai stated rape is a legal, not medical, term, and a torn hymen doesn’t automatically grant an accused benefit of doubt. The court also corrected the original sentence, imposing a fine and directing the convicted man to surrender.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Allahabad High Court upheld a 1983 rape conviction, emphasizing that a survivor’s reliable testimony trumps medical findings about a hymen’s condition. Justice Santosh Rai stated rape is a legal, not medical, term, and a torn hymen doesn’t automatically grant an accused benefit of doubt. The court also corrected the original sentence, imposing a fine… Read More »‘Rape is legal term, not medical’: HC says torn hymen no ground to doubt survivor\u2019s testimony<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":117699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}