Most allegations of rape false, reveals Forensic deptt at SBMCH

In about ninety per cent of such cases, it failed to find any proof of rape.

From January 2002 to April 19 this year, the forensic department examined 124 alleged rape victims, aged between 11 to 22. Among them, 26 were married and the rest 98 unmarried.

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In forensic tests, only 15 were 'raped', of whom ten were unmarried and five married.

Forty of the 98 unmarried 'victims' were found to be 'virgin'. Only ten of them were found 'raped' and the rest 58 of the unmarried 'victims' were 'habituated in sexual intercourse'.

Four of the unmarried teenaged girls had abortion more than once and seven of them were pregnant. Only five of the married 26 girls were found 'raped'. Others had 'past intercourse.'

According to forensic experts at the hospital, it is hard to determine whether a girl is raped or not if she is married, habituated to sexual intercourse or she delayed in reporting to the hospital or had taken bath after the incident.

Police official explained that most of the cases of alleged rape are lodged long after the incident. So it is difficult to determine whether a victim is really raped or not, and consequently inquiry and punishment is also not satisfactory.