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Deploring the observations of an Allahabad High Court judge in a POCSO case judgment, Shiv Sena (UBT) Rajya Sabha member Priyanka Chaturvedi wrote to CJI Sanjiv Khanna Friday calling it “flawed” and seeking the judge’s disqualification “for delivering such a misguided verdict”.
In an order on March 17, Allahabad HC judge Justice Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra observed that grabbing breasts and breaking the strings of the girl’s pyjamas while dragging her under a culvert were not sufficient to hold the charges of rape or attempt to rape. In her letter to the CJI, Chaturvedi said, “I firmly believe this is a flawed judgment… It is alarming that when 51 crimes against women happen every hour in the country, this is the level of commitment to women’s safety demonstrated by our judicial system.” Calling the observations “outrageous” and “unacceptable”, Chairperson of the Congress Social Media and Digital Platforms Supriya Shrinate said, “If courts give such observations, where do children and women go and report about incidents when they are harassed?”
TMC Rajya Sabha member Sagarika Ghose said the observations show the “anti-women mindset in society being pushed by the BJP government”. “We all saw how our champion wrestlers were treated when they accused BJP leader Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh (of sexual harassment),” said Ghose.
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