India, Aug. 7 -- Incestuous sexual violence by a parent tears through the foundational fabric of familial trust and must invite the severest condemnation in both language and sentence, the Supreme Court held on Wednesday, dismissing a petition filed by a man convicted of repeatedly raping his minor daughter. "The home, which should be a sanctuary, cannot be permitted to become a site of unspeakable trauma... such offences will be met with an equally unsparing judicial response," said the court. P9

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