Rape is an Injury Caused in Hostile Environment: Suicidal, Homicidal or Accidental

Rape is an injury. Too much has been discussed and debated about rape in the society, media news rooms, court rooms, seminars, conferences, roads, political speeches, public demonstrations, etc. All these public discussions end with a highly intellectual note with a pseudo sense of fear that it is a “Mind Set ”problem. We found it quite amazing and surprising that it is now classified as ‘penetration, insertion, manipulation and application ’and discussed in these terms among the medical fraternity, police personnel, lawyers and judges; stressing upon the need to have more deterrent laws; worried about what justice shall be delivered. Everybody is shouting and searching for a solution to this problem/injury in the form of law and justice, after the rape has been committed, but nobody is concerned about the cause and manner of rape (injury). Present study is just an attempt to look from the eyes of forensic medicine specialist about the medico-legal aspects of the injury i.e. Rape.