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SC agrees to examine if woman can be charged with rape

Women are usually the victims of rape but can a woman be booked in a rape case?

The Supreme Court has agreed to examine this question after a woman petitioned it for anticipatory bail in a rape case also involving her son.

The apex court has asked the Punjab government to respond to the plea filed by a 61-year-old woman who has been implicated in the case filed by her daughter-in-law.

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