Medico-Legal Update

  • Year: 2009
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 2

Date rape in Indian scenario

  • Author:
  • U.B. Roychowdhury1,, S. Basak1, B. Sukul2, M. Pal3
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 28 to 29

1Dept. of Forensic and State Medicine, Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata.

2Dept. of Forensic and State Medicine, N.R.S. Medical, College, Kolkata.

3Dept. of Pathology, Midnapore Medical College, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal.

*Corresponding author: U.B. Roychowdhury, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Forensic and State Medicine, Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, 244, AJC Bose Road, Kolkata, 700 020, E-mail: udayfsm@yahoo.co.in

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Abstract

In contrast to Stranger rape, Date rape or Acquaintance rape is perpetrated by someone close to the victim. Though well known in the western world for quite some time, it is rapidly emerging as a grave social malady in this subcontinent in recent years.

Keywords

Date rape, Date rape drugs, Victim