Talk all you want – of consent, safety and rapes– the truth remains, that the Indian law remains the biggest detrimental factor in justice. Fight all you want for gender identity and equal rights, this legal system will always pull the nation back by a hundred years. A Delhi man was drugged, kidnapped and brutally raped but our country refuses to serve justice to him.

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Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code defines rape as "sexual intercourse with a woman against her will, without her consent, by coercion, misrepresentation or fraud or at a time when she has been intoxicated or duped, or is of unsound mental health and in any case if she is under 16 years of age." The Indian Penal Code doesn’t even consider rape against men as a criminal offense.

To make things worse, Section 377 criminalizes homosexuality, deeming even consensual sex between men unnatural. If you’re man who has been raped by another man, or worse, if you happen to be homosexual, living with the trauma all your life would be much easier than seeking real justice. Homosexuality makes you a criminal already, homosexual rape is obviously out of question.

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Arnav started a dialogue about unfair the Indian law is towards men in general, and gay men in particular by posting these screenshots of his conversation with a homosexual friend who recently got raped on a date.

“Oh and this wasn't done by a lurker in one of those shady, isolated streets. The criminal is another student of the same prestigious university. Seems Delhi is equally unsafe for some men, but they don't even legally have a voice.” He made a valid point about how rape isn’t just confined to rural areas and dimly lit streets.

The personal account of his friend is harrowing, disturbing and just very, very saddening.

During the course of this conversation, you can almost feel the man’s trauma from revisiting that unfortunate night to being scared of even reporting the crime to blaming himself for it.

We hope putting this story out there could have helped him get the justice he deserves but given the times we’re living in, it really is a far-fetched idea. In a country where being gay isolates you from your gender, let alone the thousand stereotypes and ridicule one has to live with, it’s not hard to imagine why rape victims would rather suffer silently than report crimes.

Well done, India. You’re doing it right, absolutely right.

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