what should a girl get if she falsly accuse someone of raping her?

I thnk that accusing someone falsely is as bad if not worse than the act itself. I think the woman should have very harsh circumstances. To toy with another dignity and freedom is not something to be taken lightly. Especially ,like you say, the outcome for the man is so bad. It takes alot of nerve to address this to begin with why in the world would a woman lie about it?

if it can be 100% proven without a doubt she lied- jail,a fine,and a very public apology to the man and his family (if he has one). you should never claim a false charge like that,it destroys people.

The girl should be treated like the boy - named and shamed and if she is found guilty of lying then she should receive a prison sentence. If something like this was made law then girls would be less likely to falsely accuse a boy of rape.

I think, if they KNOWINGLY falsely accused someone of rape, they should make a formal apology to the person and their family for putting them through that and then do some community service or some sort of probation. I know a lot of girls who've done that more than once.

No law can be said a full proof. This law has been made due to the fact that rapist were finding it easy getting bail in past so, this law has been made but I doubt if the real cirminals get any punishments in their life! I would ask girls herself this question as what they want to do with a girl who is abusing the most powerful law against them being a victim of rape!

I just don't understand why girld would do such false accusation. Here in our country, the girls sometimes even truly raped would just keep silent to avoid humilliation. Others would just settle to marry their rapist just to avoid trouble. Though most of the women now are brave enough to fight for justice once truly raped.

any person who falsely accuses someone of raping her should be jailed, that is just not right and can ruin his life for ever, but there has to be proof in court as well, they just don't accept that would out proof and rape is very hard to prove, so chances are the boy is guilty and even then he gets off and the raped girl never gets justice.

She must publically acclaim his innocence and then make up for all the wrong he had to endure. His lost job, she must go to his boss and acclaim him not a rapist!! She must put in the local paper her wrong doings. And she must go to jail for falsely accusing him of rape. That's what happens here in the US, the girl or person is guilty of false accusation and has to go to jail.

I'm not sure what the right punishment would be. Perhaps to be on national tv and air a public appology and make it clear that she falsly accused this guy as well as to write a public appology to be put on the front page in the local paper. she should also pay for all the court costs as well as lost time the guy lost from work due to this as well as his legal fees. Jail time or a simple fine is not enough altho maybe that should be part of it. They girl that cries rape not only hurts the guy for life....she also makes it more difficult for other women that are really raped. The punishment needs to be harsh and fit the crime.

ware I'm from, the girl basically has to prove that she was raped. Mostly there has to be evidence that she has been raped. I think if they prove that the woman was lying, then she should serve the same amount of time in prison as the man would have had to serve.

Hello friend, I'm from Delhi and I really didn't know this. It is really a biased rule and I hope girls don't start using this as a weapon against guys they want to take revenge from. Still, I do not think it is going to be easy for a girl to do this because her image will also be tarnished a bit in the society.

Rape victim just dont get raped physically but also she gets raped mentally and emotionally too.. she would wake up in midnights dreaming she is being raped again, she would wash her body 1000s of times a day and yet she would feel dirty. And no one comes forward to help her and all the rapist were being released because there were not enough evidence, if there were witness how many rapes are possible and the lawyers were asking all sort of questions from the victim like when he was raping you , where were his hands on ur body or how big his weapon was and things like this which were more to embarrass the girl rather than cross examining her. Keeping all this in mind , and the public outcry against soft laws on rape post movie Insaf Ka Taraju, the Rajiv Gandhi Govt made this law for the betterment of females and yes it is now misused in 90% of cases, since you know what happens esp in villages if they get caught it becomes rape if not caught it is fun , also girls aew misusing it let right and center and so much so that there was demand from a section of society to go back to old law where a girl has to prove her rape by a particular man. I would hang those girls and anyone who conspire with them, simply because they make fun of such a good law and give bad names to us girls then the rapist, now public start thinking may be this guy is innocent and girl is misusing the law and public as well as judicial sympathy is with rapist.

I think this is a very bad act by the girl.well i am an indian too, not many times i saw this but yes i have seen such cases. if i was a judge i would like to give the girl the similar treatment a boy would get when he rapes a girl. a girl can do cheap acts like this when she is not well cultured and the same goes to a boy too. the punishment must be equal whether its a boy or a girl.

The girl also should be punished of misconduct and or Must pay the damage has been done to someone she accused.

I don't know, it really depends on a lot of thing. Like was she raped or did she made that up? Did she really strongly believed that was the guy who raped her? Even if he proved himself innocent on the court, is there any chance he was in fact guilty? If she made it up just to settle the score with the guy, I would sent her to jail and hoped she'll get raped for real this time.

Rape is a very sensitive case but basing from your accounts I guess the law is one-sided. I don't have even any idea on how a guy would prove his innocence with that effect and the society seems to be the judge in any manner. I just could not imagine if "media" will cover this and what if guy is really innocent? In my country, rape is defined with the element of "force", (the accused is always viewed as the aggressor - which case he may also use devices that make him or her (since a woman may also be charged with rape but rare case) the stronger one). It has also defined that "anything" inserted (regardless of the human organ) with that force, is attributed with that case. A supposed victim must be able to present the evidence (strong evidence is supported by medical proof that she or he was threatened, hurt, and some physical exams as well as laboratory examinations). and the accused can always counter-act that. Witnesses may also solidify the case. Rape within marriage may also happen so our laws in here is protective of women. Yet, we share some similar behaviors in how the society reacts to it. Yet, a woman proving that she has been raped may have a very weak case if she has not reported the case in time, and that evidences are not in tact and credibility of witnesses are not solidified... All these elements are important. It is sad if that system is used by girls to set-up a guy to settle a marriage or anything that has to do with family matters. Yet, it sounds unfair to qualify that it is a predominant situation in your community. I think, your society needs to deal much on the study of "rape" and revising policies/laws to it. However, this is tough for Indian society who is conservative in nature. I have Indian friends and they think, it does have something to do with a lot of factors that has something to do with sexuality, changing dating patterns and so forth. If I am the judge, I think both subjects needs to be cross-examined. (the accuser and the accused). There should be a fair trial.

In India the girl will also loose her dignity if she claimed to be raped. So there won't be many girls who would falsely accuse a man of rape. Unless the girl is shameless and has evil intentions. Beofre framing a law people don't think if it could be misused. And what effect it has on the victim. If I were a judge, and I would be satisfied that there no rape, I would sentence - 1]minimum two months imprisonment or the months spent by victim in jail, whichever is higher. 2]Public apology 3]Fine of Rs.20,000 If there was rape but there was no sufficient proof against the accused then there won't be any penalty against the girl.