Social media was ablaze with posts condemning a recent Allahabad High Court order that groping of breasts or pulling pyjama strings did not count for attempted rape in the case of a 11-year-old child.
The controversial ruling came from the Allahabad High Court on March 17 while Justice Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra classified it as an aggravated sexual assault sparking outrage among people across professions.
Senior Advocate Indira Jaising sought that the Supreme Court take suo motu cognizance of the case and said that advocates had been pulled up by the Apex Court for “much less”.
Responding to this, a BJP member CT Pallavi, took to X (formerly Twitter), and said, “Another gem of Indian judiciary? Grabbing Victim’s Breasts, Breaking Pyjama string are NOT attempted to RAPE, says Allahabad High Court. The girl was only 11 years old. What’s the use of stringent laws of POCSO & BNS when such judgements are given? Recall the Chhattisgarh HC judgement that acquitted a man who caused his wife’s death because of unnatural Sex?”
Union minister Annapurna Devi, also said, “I don’t support this decision, and the Supreme Court should also re-consider this decision because it will have adverse impact on a civil society.”
“I think the motive of the accused in this case was clear…. When the Kasganj court ruled it as rape, the Allahabad High Court said it did not amount to rape. And I think it is not right to give such a controversial statement because in today’s environment if a HC judge says something like this, then the message that goes out in the society is wrong,” said Congress MP Kapil Sibbal said in a press conference.
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