Top Court Pauses Allahabad High Court’s “Grabbing Breasts Not Rape” Verdict

Underlining a “total lack of sensitivity”, the Supreme Court today paused the Allahabad High Court ruling in a child abuse case, in which the judge had observed that the grabbing of breast and pulling the string of a pyjama don’t amount to a rape attempt. The bench of Justice BR Gavai and Justice Augustine George Masih … Read more

Minister On “Not Rape” Order By Allahabad High Court Judge

New Delhi: Union Minister of Women and Child Development Annpurna Devi today strongly condemned a recent judgment by the Allahabad High Court, which ruled that the act of grabbing a woman’s breast and snapping the string of her pyjama does not constitute rape but instead falls under the category of assault with intent to disrobe. … Read more