The High Court of Chhattisgarh has ruled that the act of rubbing genitals against a victim without penetration amounts to “Attempt to Rape” and not the substantive offence of Rape. Citing medical evidence of an intact hymen, the Court modified the convict’s sentence, reducing it from seven years to three and a half years. Justice
‘Rubbing Genitals Without Penetration is Attempt to Rape, Not Rape’: Chhattisgarh HC Reduces Sentence
