{"id":34931,"date":"2018-10-31T14:28:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T08:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=34931"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:28:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T08:58:14","slug":"consent-key-factor-in-defining-sexual-assault-says-delhi-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/consent-key-factor-in-defining-sexual-assault-says-delhi-hc\/","title":{"rendered":"Consent key factor in defining sexual assault, says Delhi HC:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/consent-key-factor-in-defining-sexual-assault-says-delhi-hc\/article19754806.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consent key factor in defining sexual assault, says Delhi HC<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Delhi High Court\u2019s discussion on various dimensions of sexual consent in the modern world.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is the background? <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A judgment acquits a film-maker in a rape case giving him the benefit of the doubt that he might have misread the \u2018no\u2019 of the woman as a \u2018yes\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is the court\u2019s observation?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consent would mean voluntary agreement of a woman to engage in sexual activity without being abused or exploited by coercion or threats<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The consent can be revoked any moment<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sexual consent would be the key factor in defining sexual assault as any sexual activity without consent would be rape<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are differences between how men and women initiate and reciprocate sexual consent<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In normal construct, man is the initiator of sexual interaction while whereas a woman is by and large non-verbal<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consent key factor in defining sexual assault, says Delhi HC: Context: The Delhi High Court\u2019s discussion on various dimensions of sexual consent in the modern world. What is the background? A judgment acquits a film-maker in a rape case giving him the benefit of the doubt that he might have misread the \u2018no\u2019 of the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/consent-key-factor-in-defining-sexual-assault-says-delhi-hc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Consent key factor in defining sexual assault, says Delhi HC:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704816895},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}