Supreme Court agrees to examine if woman can be charged with rape

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The Supreme Court has agreed to examine the question of whether a woman can be booked in a rape case, after a 61-year-old woman filed a plea for anticipatory bail in a case involving her son. The Court has asked the Punjab government to respond to the plea and has granted the woman protection from arrest. The woman's lawyer...

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