Rhythm Kansal, Chandigarh University
INTRODUCTION:
What was your thought on Digital Rape before reaching this article; you must be determining it as an online harassment or molestation such as defacing an individual’s identity, stalking, cyber sexual offences etc. You are wholly mistaken, the term “Digital Rape” comes from the word “Digit” which literally means finger, thumb and toe.
The term Digital Rape means insertion of finger, toe and thumb in the private parts of the victim without the consent of the victim.
Digital Rape was not even acknowledged as a rape till 2012, it came in picture after the brutal and regretful “Nirbhaya Gang Rape” case. This was the case which coined a new definition of Rape as in the history of Indian Judicial system this was the foremost case which beyond one’s imagination. In its judgment the hon’ble Supreme Court coined it as a rarest of rare crime, most brutal and barbaric attack. After this case an amendment was made in criminal law in 2013. The amendment inserted a clause in Section 375 of IPC, 1860; the second clause of 375 explains digital rape which says that insertion of any object or a part of the body, not being the penis, into the vagina, the urethra or anus of a woman or makes her to do so with him or any other person.
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