Open AccessMedico Legal Aspect of Rape
Author(s) -
Koushik Saha,
M Emdadur Rahman,
Sakib Mahmud,
Abul Monsur,
PK Chakrabarty
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
taj
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2408-8854
pISSN - 1019-8555
DOI - 10.3329/taj.v22i1.5030
Subject(s) - gratification , psychology , sexual violence , social issues , medicine , psychiatry , criminology , social psychology , law , political science
Rape is a serious sexual offence having social, psychological, physical and legal aspects of the problem. This study tried to evaluate the different aspects of profile of victims of rape cases. 76 rape victims were included in the study who attended in Forensic Medicine Department of Dhaka Medical College & Comilla Medical College for medico legal examination in the year 2006. Commonest age group of the rape victims were 16-20 years (55.26%). Getting sexual gratification was the main motive in most of the cases (73.68%), other motives were forceful marriage (6.58%), defamation (2.63%), etc. Unmarried girls (71.05%), low socio-economic back ground-poor (82.89%) and illiterate females (82.89%) were the main victim of rape. Improvement of socio economic condition and literacy may be effective weapons to fight against this problem of our country. DOI: 10.3329/taj.v22i1.5030 TAJ 2009; 22(1): 111-114