The Bombay High Court judgment on sexual assault: A serious matter
The Bombay High Court judgment on sexual assault: A serious matter The judgment does not merely read into the statute a requirement not otherwise found in it; it operates to diminish the experience of children, and especially young girls. the first floor of his house to find that a room had been bolted from the outside. She discovered, upon opening the door, that her daughter had been locked in the room. The child was crying. She then proceeded to tell her mother that under the pretext of giving her a guava, the accused had lured her into his house and proceeded to press her breast and tried to remove her salwar . A First Information Report was lodged immediately thereafter. The Special Court found that the accused was guilty of offences under Sections 354 (a statutory relic that criminalizes assault with intent to “outrage the modesty of a woman”), 363 (kidnapping) and 342 (wrongful confinement) of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) and of sexual assaul...