In a first following the Supreme Court's verdict that decriminalised same-gender relationships last year, Delhi police have arrested a 19-year-old girl for raping a 25-year old woman under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
As reported by India Today on Tuesday, 5 February, the survivor has alleged that the 19-year-old accused and three others subjected her to repeated sexual and physical assault.
The survivor added that she was taken to an apartment in Delhi's Dilshad Colony, and was gang-raped and blackmailed thereafter.
Following her complaint, the 19-year-old was produced before the Karkardooma Court and further sent to judicial custody in Tihar jail. The Delhi police was also granted a day by the court to interrogate her.
The survivor who hails from the North-Eastern part of India had previously tried to lodge a case under Section 377 before the SC's verdict, India Today reported. The Seemapuri Police, at the time, refused her complaint stating that a woman could not commit the crime of rape according to the IPC provision.
SC in its historic verdict in September 2018 ruled that consensual adult same-gender sex is not a crime.
(With inputs from India Today)
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