Abstract

Sexual violence is the most common form of violence and is becoming a global problem. The cases registered under sections 376, 366A, 363, 354, 377 IPC and POCSO act are brought for examination for the evidence of signs of sexual intercourse and age estimation. The present study aims to find out the profile of sexual offences at Chamarajanagar, Karnataka and to describe the characteristics of survivors and accused of sexual assault. A standardized proforma specially designed for this purpose was used and filled in each case after detailed interviews. Data entry was made in excel after cleaning and coding it was transferred into SPSS software and the data was analyzed. Total 58 cases brought to hospital included 30 (51.7%) survivors and 28 (48.3%) accused. Maximum number of survivors educated up to school. Unmarried accused were maximum cases. In majority of cases the incident had occurred between evening & mid night time. Majority of the sexual assault cases occurred in the accused house. Majority of the survivors were examined after 48 hours. In majority of cases accused were close friends of the victims. The manner of offence in majority of the rape cases were of consensual type.

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