Retrospective Study Related to the Accused in Cases of Sexual Assault brought to Department of Forensic Medicine, Victoria Hospital, Bangalore

The saying "A charge of rape is easy to make; hard to prove, harder still to disprove" is always true. Policing the accused in any case of rape is an easy task, but the onus of proof lies on the person alleged. Of late the cases of rape are on the run. In a country like India where the literacy rate, the socio-economic status of the people, the quality of life is at a state of float the legal system plays a major role in the verdict of rape. The recent amendments of criminal laws and policies of the state towards women would give a tight grip to the law agencies to break the crime. However, in many of the cases of rape the accused would be either the relative of the survivor or a neighbor or a person known to the survivor who would be an accused of abduction and rape of the minor survivor or even if the survivor being an adult. Sex and gender-based violence is a worldwide problem. In this present study the profile of the males being accused of that crime is studied.