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Section 375

The movie Section 375 analyzes a high-profile rape case where a Bollywood director, Rohan Khurana, is accused of sexually assaulting his junior costume stylist, Anjali Dangle. Rohan's defense lawyer, Tarun Saluja, argues it was a consensual relationship, not rape, while the prosecution lawyer, Hiral Gandhi, insists it was rape. The case centers around the legal definitions of rape in Section 375 of India's penal code. In the end, it is revealed Anjali and Rohan were in a relationship but she felt degraded, leading to her "false" rape complaint. However, the judges appear to be influenced by an unruly mob outside pressuring

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Section 375

The movie Section 375 analyzes a high-profile rape case where a Bollywood director, Rohan Khurana, is accused of sexually assaulting his junior costume stylist, Anjali Dangle. Rohan's defense lawyer, Tarun Saluja, argues it was a consensual relationship, not rape, while the prosecution lawyer, Hiral Gandhi, insists it was rape. The case centers around the legal definitions of rape in Section 375 of India's penal code. In the end, it is revealed Anjali and Rohan were in a relationship but she felt degraded, leading to her "false" rape complaint. However, the judges appear to be influenced by an unruly mob outside pressuring

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Section 375 movie :Analysis

Group : Q4
BIPUL KUMAR D_17
DEEPAK KUMAR D_18
DARSHAN SHRESTHA F_09
SONAM SHIVANI D_44
SOUMYA MADAN A_57
What is section 375 as per IPC
• 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 18 years of age."
It's rape if it falls under following categories:

1. Against her will.

2. Without her consent.

3. With her consent, when her consent has been obtained by putting her or any person in whom she is
interested in fear of death or of hurt.

4. With her consent, when the man knows that he is not her husband, and that her consent is given because
she believes that he is another man to whom she is or believes herself to be lawfully married.

5. With her consent, when, at the time of giving such a consent, by reason of unsoundness of mind or
intoxication or the administration by him personally or through another of any stupefying or unwholesome
substance, she is unable to understand the nature and consequences of that to which she gives consent.

6. With or without her consent, when she is under sixteen years of age. Explanation: Penetration is sufficient
to constitute the sexual intercourse necessary to the offence of rape.
Story
• Notable film director Rohan Khurana is arrested and convicted by a
sessions court after assistant costume designer Anjali Dangle accuses him
of rape. In the High Court, senior and talented criminal barrister Tarun
Saluja works hard to punch holes in the accuser’s claims, while Hiral Gandhi
, a utopian and fervent lawyer fighting her first big case, who was once
Saluja's trainee, serve as the prosecutor and defence barrister of the
claimed victim. Insisting that it is a case of an affair gone sour, Tarun Saluja
points out that the law does not regard consensual physical relations as
rape. Hiral Gandhi refuses to call it anything but rape, demanding justice to
be served. Tarun Saluja states that Law is a fact, Justice is abstract. The
case disputes the legal provisions of the penal code 375 that defines
conditions under which a sexual offense can be defined as rape.
Summary
• In the movie, Khanna’s Saluja is defending Rohan Khurana (played by Rahul Bhat), a Bollyood director
accused of sexual assault by Anjali Dangle, a junior costume stylist. Saluja is up against Hiral Gandhi (Richa
Chadda), his former protege and the prosecution lawyer who has a reputation for taking up women’s cases
and winning them. Saluja initially builds his defence on the premise that the assault never took place and
then suggests that the forensic evidence — semen, pubic hair found on the survivor — points at a
consensual relationship, not rape. Saluja finds out that the evidence was sent to the forensic lab five days
after the assault took place. You’d think that a woman being touted to be the first female advocate general
of the state would do the basic check, but hey, she doesn’t. She constantly protests during valid cross-
examination, only to be ticked off by the judges.
• at the end is that Rohit and Anjali were indeed in a consensual relationship. However, Anjali was degraded
and humiliated in the course of it, leading her to file a ‘false’ rape complaint against Rohit, But Rohit lands in
jail because the prosecution argues that Section 375 of the IPC says that if there is a considerable power
imbalance in a relationship between a man and a woman, and the latter alleges that she was coerced into a
sexual relationship with the man, he’d be jailed. However, before the judgment is read out, the judges are
shown looking stunned and nervously pacing up and down their chambers. One of them, then anxiously
looks out of the window at the unruly mob shouting and threatening to break police barricades. It is only
after, that they read out the judgment making the viewer feel like they felt pressured by the violence of the
mob to rule against the man. And that’s a deeply unfair representation of any anti-sexual assault protest the
country has witnessed in the recent times.
Things to be noted
• Laws made to protect woman can be used in a wrong manner with
evil intentions
• Sometime mob pressure can also change the verdict
• Without knowing everything people give verdict before the jury and if
the accused is not guilty then also he and his family whole life goes in
for a toss
• Determining Conesus in a relationship is the hardest part for any jury
in case like this.
• Every coin has two face similar to cases like this, we can’t understand
without knowing both the sides.

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