Sexual crimes are on a rise in the country. A few places are dubbed as unsafe places for women like the national capital Delhi. While the registered crimes are big in numbers, many say that the unregistered cases will also be very high in numbers.
The victims go through a lot of trauma. They worry about what others and society will think about them. This is the reason behind many victims not stepping out to say what happened to them. The trauma doesn’t end there as the examination conducted on the sexual crime victims causes them mental stress.
Now sexual assault victims need not worry about the two-finger vaginal test as the Supreme Court has made it clear that the continuation of the test is sad and said that the practice should be rooted out and who indulge in such practice should be punished for criminal misconduct charges.
Taking a strong objection to the practice, the Supreme Court bench led by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud maintained that the two-finger test causes further trauma for sexual crime victims and said that there is no scientific evidence to prove the practice right.
“The so-called test has no scientific basis and is an invasive method of examining rape survivors… It instead re-victimises and re-traumatises women. The two-finger test must not be conducted,” the bench said.
It has to be mentioned here that earlier in 2013 the Supreme Court gave a judgment on how to examine sexual crime victims. Since then, the practice has been going on and now the new ruling has put an end to the traumatic practice to examine the victims.
