The Mathura rape case was an incident of custodial rape in India on 26 March 1972, wherein Mathura, a young tribal girl, was allegedly raped by two policemen on the compound of Desaiganj Police Station in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra. After the Supreme Court acquitted the accused, there was public outcry and protests, which eventually led to amendments in the Indian rape law via The Criminal Law Amendment Act 1983 (No. 43) .[1][2]
Mathura was a young orphan tribal girl living with one of her two brothers.[3] She was an Adivasi. The incident is suspected to have taken place on 26 March 1972, she was between 14 and 16 years old at that time.[3] Mathura occasionally worked as a domestic helper with a woman named Noshi.[4] She met Noshi's nephew named Ashok who wanted to marry her, but her brother did not agree to the union and went to the local police station to lodge a complaint claiming that his sister, a minor, was being kidnapped by Ashok and his family members. After receiving the complaint, the police ahuthority brought Ashok and his family members to the police station. Following general investigation, Mathura, her brother, Ashok, and his family members were permitted to go back home. However, as they were leaving, Mathura was asked to stay behind while her relatives were asked to wait outside.[5] Mathura was then raped by the two policemen.
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In September 1979, only a few days after the verdict was pronounced, law professors Upendra Baxi,Raghunath Kelkar and Lotika Sarkar of Delhi University and Vasudha Dhagamwar of Pune wrote an open letter to the Supreme Court, protesting the concept of consent in the judgment. "Consent involves submission, but the converse is not necessarily true...From the facts of case, all that is established is submission, and not consent...Is the taboo against pre-marital sex so strong as to provide a license to Indian police to rape young girls."[8] Spontaneous widespread protests and demonstrations followed by women's organisations who demanded a review of judgement, receiving extensive media coverage.[10]
Such is her apparent intimacy with the structure of the house, that in her perambulations, she will nimbly avoid the querulous floorboards past her brother's bedroom. The Cutlet (sobriquet courtesy of H. Stutter) is eleven, on the precipice of everything coarsening, dropping, swelling, and inspires delicious confusion in the women of the house (save for Helena who is fervently indifferent). Never before have his needs been so diligently administered to; never before has his closed bedroom door served as such incitement. Battalions of aunts and aunties, toothless amahs, pulchritudinous sweeper girls enter, under varying pretexts; "just wanting a chat," "just checking if you want me to give the floor one final going-over;" others come with their arms laden with tributes--glasses of water, mugs of Ovaltine, warmer blankets, a thinner sheet. His mother has resurrected bed-time rituals that used to bore her; she scrapes on the door with her fingernails and enters in her nightgown, her face cleaned and...
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