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Jharkhand HC: Night home entry and lifting clothes not attempted rape

The Jharkhand High Court has ruled that entering a woman's home at night and lifting her clothes does not constitute an attempt to commit rape. The court drew a clear legal distinction between outraging a woman's modesty and attempted rape, two separate offenses under Indian law. While upholding the conviction for outraging modesty, the court reduced the sentence to the period already served by the accused. The judgment clarifies the legal threshold required to establish a charge of attempted rape in such cases.

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