Sex after false promise of marriage leads cases of rape in Maharashtra

V Narayan TNN 

    Sex after a false promise of marriage is the leading category of rape in the state, as per a CID report. While 760 cases were registered in 2011, 880 were filed last year, an increase of 15.8%. Property dispute is the second leading cause, with cases rising from 17 to 28 in the years under consideration—a 64.7% rise. The third is job inducement, with 15 cases filed in each of both years. Other categories include rape committed before murder, with robbery, with dacoity, and in revenge. 
    The police say that in a majority of rape cases, the accused is closely known to the survivor. An example of rape related to a romantic relationship is a case registered by the Bandra 
police in February. It was filed by a 24-year-old corporate communications executive of a multinational company against its managing director. The woman and the accused were in a relationship for a few months. She filed the case when the accused refused to marry her and wed another woman. She also alleged that the managing director had threatened to post objectionable pictures of her on the internet. 
    “Sexual desire may not be an extension of love, but an act of carnal pleasure... and has been predatory since the Stone Age. Success is seen as a victory similar to conquest of land, earning money or establishing a superior power equation,” psychiatrist Dr Harish Shetty told TOI. “Rapists are largely psychopathic personalities and have no remorse or guilt.”

Source:::: The Times of India, 18-11-2013, p.02,  http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOINEW&BaseHref=TOIM/2013/11/18&PageLabel=2&EntityId=Ar00200&ViewMode=HTML