The Supreme Court on Tuesday imposed a ban on the two-finger test in a rape case, a move that will change the historical trajectory of rape convictions in India. While restoring conviction in a ...

Advocacy groups are welcoming a decision by India's Supreme Court that bans what is known as a "two-finger" test on rape survivors, calling it a patriarchal and invasive practice and ruling that ...

The two-finger test or virginity test in rape cases was a violation of fundamental rights of the survivours, the High Court observed in the full text of a verdict. The test was neither scientific nor ...

The Meghalaya government has informed the Supreme Court that it has prohibited the 'two-finger test' which was conducted to determine whether a survivor of rape or sexual assault was habituated to ...

The Supreme Court on October 31 declared that any person conducting the invasive ‘two-finger’ or ‘three-finger’ vaginal test on rape or sexual assault survivors will be found guilty of misconduct. In ...

On October 31, India’s Supreme Court ruled that anyone who conducts the “regressive and invasive” two-finger test on survivors of sexual assault or rape will be guilty of misconduct. The judgment ...