The NCW's demand for treating other kind sexual assaults also as rape is untenable under law. It was reported during last week that a girl stayig in a Mumbai suburb made a false complaint about her newly wed husband of stealing ornaments and throwing her out of train on their way to Goa for honeymoon. The poor guy was behind bars for more than week (also might have got enough trashing from the cops!) and the episode turned out to be a conspiracy hatched by the girl alongwith her former husband and his friend to get rid of him. In another case reported in Mumbai about a week back, a girl had accused her own father of raping and this fellow (a BMC worker) was behind bars for more than two years. I wonder how a girl can accuse her own father of such a henious crime. A large number of cases lodged under section 498-A are also false. In such a senerio, the law makers needs to be careful before enacting such draconian laws.
