IN the first case in India in which a crime against an animal is being treated on par with a crime against humans, the prosecution is going to tenuous lengths to prove the rape of a dog.
They are collecting semen, going to laboratories to prove force (injury marks on the private parts of the animal and animal hair in the nails of the accused; marks on private parts), used in patently non-consensual sex.
This could prove path-breaking in Indian law.
Some say this could also be the first time in our legal history that Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code is used in its context to nail an unnatural sexual act and not to prosecute people having consensual sex with people of their same sex. More...
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