CLAT LLM 2014 Question Paper with answer key for online practice

Question : 85 of 100

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A, a 19 year old woman, had consensual sexual intercourse with B, a 17 years old boy. When B’s parents found out, they approached the police for registration of a FIR for statutory rape. The police officer insisted that no offence had been made out.

The police officer is right. rape law is gender-specific. Only a woman can be a victim of rape, and not a man, so, no offence is made out.
The police officer is partly right, and partly wrong. This is not an offence of statutory rape, punishable under the IPC, but the offence of penetrative sexual assault, punishable under the protection of children from sexual offences act, 2012
The people officer is wrong. This crime is punishable under the Juvenile justice act, 2000
None of the above

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