Supreme Court pauses Allahabad High Court's controversial 'grabbing breasts not rape' order

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The Supreme Court has halted an Allahabad High Court ruling that stated "grabbing breasts" and "breaking the strings of a girl's pyjamas" do not qualify as rape or attempted rape. Taking suo moto cognisance of the controversial order, which sparked public outrage, the Supreme Court criticised the judgment for its lack of sensitivity.

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00:00More news, the Supreme Court is staying the bizarre High Court order on rape bid, Allahabad

00:11High Court is grabbing rest and no rape remark, Supreme Court says complete lack of sensitivity,

00:17breaking pyjama strings is not the rape bid, pulling it off is not a bid to rape, had the

00:22hats at the High Court, Supreme Court is upset saying that the High Court judge clearly didn't

00:28apply his mind, Srishti has more, Srishti the Supreme Court is echoing the thoughts of what

00:33just so many of us thought isn't it, that the High Court just was so insensitive in those comments,

00:40it's a very important observation after from the Supreme Court today, Srishti.

00:46Well definitely Sneha when the Allahabad High Court order had come out making the

00:51making the remarks that it made in its order and the observations that were made in that

00:56order, you know there was a huge debate around it, the order was called out,

01:01criticised and even lawyers, several lawyers that we've spoken to had told us that the judge

01:04has been completely insensitive, especially in the case where we're talking about a case of

01:09sexual offence against a minor child, now the Supreme Court decided to take

01:15pseumotocognizance after a letter was written by a senior lawyer and an organisation,

01:20flagging the order and asking the court to take pseumotocognizance, the court has to

01:25state the remarks in three of the paragraphs, calling it insensitive, we're talking about the

01:30remarks as you read out which included observations like even grabbing breasts of a minor,

01:36of the minor girl, undoing her pyjama strings, grabbing her, dragging her to the culvert etc.

01:41would not be enough for the charges for them to raise, so all these observations as of now

01:47have been stated, the court has issued notice to Union of India and the state of UP who will

01:51have to file their responses and the court is likely to hear this case again after two weeks,

01:56but definitely a big order from the top court considering the very first hearing they've decided

02:01to take a call and state these observations as of now, back to you.

02:05Thanking you for the moment, Shristi Hoja getting us up to speed with those details.

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