New Delhi: The Delhi gangrape case surely did move the entire nation. The streets of the capital witnessed a revolution-like scene. The gangrape posed a big question for the Indian judicial system.

But not many would know that 42 years ago, a gangrape case known as the infamous Mathura rape case of Maharashtra forced the government to change its anti-rape law. The new law now freed a rape victim from the burden of proving that she was raped and was not having consensual sex.