Mumbai, May 8 -- The Bombay High Court has commuted the life sentence awarded to three convicts to 20 years in a rape case.
Trio was convicted by a sessions court for raping a woman despite having past sexual history with her, a lawyer said here on Thursday.
The division bench of Justices Nitin Suryawanshi and M W Chandwani while upholding the conviction said in its order that when a woman says no, it means no, and there can be no presumption of consent based on her past sexual activities.
"No means no," the bench said in its May six judgment while refusing to accept the attempt made by the convicts to question the morals of the survivor.
Sexual intercourse when done without the consent of a woman is an assault on her body, mind and pr...