Mumbai, May 8 (Reporter) 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 privacy, said the court, terming rape the most morally and physically reprehensible crime in society. In their appeal, the trio had claimed that the woman was initially involved with one of them but later got into a live-in relationship with another man. In November 2014, the three barged into the survivor’s house, assaulted her live-in partner and forcibly took her to a nearby deserted spot where they raped her. “Rape cannot be treated only as a sexual crime but it should be viewed as a crime involving aggression. It is a violation of her right to privacy. Rape is the most morally and physically reprehensible crime in society, as it is an assault on the body, mind and privacy of the victim,” HC added...////...