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  VILLAIN ABHISHEK AND HIS ‘BUA’ SARASIJ MAJUMDER   Almost everyone in West Bengal, who doesn’t support TMC,   is obsessed with only one question: when will the 'Nephew' will be in jail? By the time I post this—he may be in. But who is the real villain, have you ever thought?—the nephew or the Bua (Aunty-Pishi)? In a negotiation—we apply a theorem: GOOD BOY—BAD BOY method. Two of us from the same Company get in a meeting. One play the role of a Good Boy; One play the role of a Bad Boy. Everything is pre-planned, and what the Company wants to sell, is proposed by Good Boy, and got accepted; but after Bad Boy sufficiently made the situation   and negotiation tough. I think—Mamata Banerjee played the same GAME! Only, she played the role of BENEVOLENT GOOD POLITICAL LEADER—and got   Abhishek reflected as a ‘BAD BOY’. And nephew unknowingly played his natural role—and incidentally he was a ‘NA-LAYEK UPSTART’!! Whom did the voters actually vote for—the...

 

Romeo-Juliet law & Underage sex

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SARASIJ MAJUMDER

The Supreme Court recently sought the Centre's response on application of the Romeo-Juliet law to India to decriminalise consensual teenage sex as a PIL claimed millions of under-18 girls and over-18 boys engage in consensual sex but a boy gets arrested for statutory rape if the girl gets pregnant and her parents lodge a complaint with the police.

What POCSO says: -

  • Under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, 2012, consent of a child below 18 years of age is immaterial and any person who attempts sexual activity with such an underage person would be guilty of sexual assault.
  • Under Section 375 of Indian Penal Code, there is a condition when   “… sex with a girl below the age of 16 is rape even if she had given her consent”.

The Romeo-Juliet law: -
Prior to the Romeo-Juliet law which is in force in many foreign countries, statutory rape charges would apply in cases of teen sex only if the boy was an adult.

Since 2007, many countries have adopted the Romeo-Juliet law which protects the boy from arrest if his age was not more than four years from that of the girl who is not an adult.

The plea:

  • Petitioner-advocate Harsh Vibhore Singhal pleaded with a bench headed by CJI D Y Chandrachud that many boys, who were just over 18 years of age, were stigmatised on being arrested for indulging in consensual sex with girls in the 16-18 age group.
  • "This grey area of law, a legislative vacuum, needs to be filled by guidelines on how statutory rape laws would operate by assessment of consent of 16+ to 18-year-olds before indicting the consenting adults," he said.
  • The petitioner quoted a study conducted for the health ministry, according to which 10% of women in the age group of 25-49 years had their first sexual intercourse before the age of 15, and 39% had before the age of 18 years.

 

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