Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2010
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 2

A comprehensive study of sexual offences inTripura

  • Author:
  • S. C. Sarkar

Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Tripura Medical College & DR. BRAM Teaching Hospital, Agartala, Tripura.

Abstract

Sexual offences are the most heinous crimes against women and children. It is the humiliating and the women and children remain the most vulnerable group of this crime. Finding out and preserving the biological evidences of sexual offences are the importance task for doctors and poor medical evidences are often responsible for low conviction rate of criminals. Careful analysis of preserved biological spacemen is yielding the vital evidences in criminal investigations. Victims 11–20 years are vulnerable and dangerous for sexual assault.

Keywords

Sexual assaults, collection of biological evidences, poor evidences, low conviction rate, younger groups are vulnerable