Kochi: The Kerala High Court delivered a historic verdict on Wednesday (August 4, 2021) widening the scope of legal limits in rape cases in the country. The court, while hearing a case, clarified that if the accused gets sexual satisfaction by tampering with any part of the woman, it will be treated as rape under IPC. Whether he inserted the penis into the female vagina or not.

The High Court defined rape as "any manipulation of a woman's body for her sexual satisfaction amounts to the sex entering her vagina. A bench of Justices Vinod Chandran and Ziyad Rahman AA pronounced the verdict while hearing a criminal petition filed by a person accused of raping a minor.'' In fact, the accused of raping the girl had filed a petition in the court seeking the court to check if rubbing the penis between the two thighs of the girl could be rape.

The court clarified that the definition of rape given in Section 375 of the IPC is sexual assault by entering the genitalia between the thighs of the victim. A bench of the High Court, after hearing the POCSO Act case, said, "Section 375 of the IPC, in addition to the entry of the penis into the vagina, urethra, anus, and mouth (known hole in the human body), gives the victim's other body parts such shape as if she has sexual pleasure and ejaculation sperm by rubbing the penis, It will come in the category of rape itself.''

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