The hard line Hindu nationalist outfit, based in western Maharashtra state and a key ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, threw its support behind a senior state police officer accused of rape by a model and questioned the complainant's intentions.
"Cases of charging men with molestation and rape in (high society) to create hype is on a rise now. It has almost become a fashion," the Shiv Sena wrote in its party mouthpiece, "Saamana" (to confront).
"After he has served for so many years in the police force, one model now charges Deputy Inspector General) Sunil Paraskar with rape and in one night he becomes a villain.”
"Such accusations have become good weapons to seek personal revenge."
It added the Indian judicial system needed to "open its eyes" and protect the innocent because "all the laws in the country favour women so anyone can slap any charge against anyone".
India toughened sex assault laws following the fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi in December 2012 which sparked nationwide protests, but the move has done little to stem sex attacks against women.
The model who filed the rape complaint, and who cannot be named for legal reasons, hit out at the Shiv Sena article later on Saturday.
"This matter is in court, no-one should be commenting in sensitive matters like this without knowing all the facts," the woman told national news agency Press Trust of India.
Last month, the alleged rape of a six-year-old girl in a school triggered a series of street protests by angry parents and political activists over the lack of safety for women and children in the country.
A 16-year-old girl in Delhi was also gang-raped at gunpoint in June while a seven-year-old girl was found hanging from a tree in a village in West Bengal state. Locals suspect she was raped.
In May, two girls in Uttar Pradesh state found hanging from a tree had been gang-raped in a case that sparked waves of public revulsion.
Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party promised a "zero tolerance" approach to violence against women after it swept to power in May elections.
However two state BJP ministers appeared to trivialise rape in June when one said the attacks happened "accidentally" and another said they were "sometimes right, sometimes wrong".
Uttar Pradesh's Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh was also the target of public anger in April when he told an election rally he opposed a recently introduced death penalty for gang-rapists, saying, "boys make mistakes".
The Shiv Sena, came under fire earlier this month after some of its MPs tried to force-feed a chapatti, flatbread, to a Muslim restaurant manager fasting for Ramadan because they were unhappy about food at a government canteen.
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There may be just about 1% of such cases where woman file false complaints. Even if so, Shiv Sena stooped to lowest levels by writing such things in its Party's propaganda papers. The complainant is correct in hitting back at Shiv Sena and saying that it is for the courts to decide. However, every rape complaint should be investigated thoroughly and parties like Shiv Sena should be reprimanded seriously. On a side note, many years ago, in a party, I heard one person saying a joke. He said that one of his friend would discipline his brat, pre-teen son and on occasions would ground him for a day (not allowing him to play with his friends for that day). On one such occasion, the son threatened his father that if he is grounded, he would pick up the phone, call the authorities and complain on child abuse. He told the father "You know whom they will believe and what will happen to you". The father remembered this and the next time he took him to India on a vacation, he twisted his son's ears right at the airport and said to him "You have been threatening me in US. Now go and complain on child abuse to whoever you want here".
people with this mentality are scum of the land but hey what else do you expect from thugs of Shiv Sena?
What else do you expect from 'Shining India"? Now Indian trolls will descent to justify this.