The Kerala High Court has held that a comment on a woman's "body structure" is a sexually coloured remark which would constitute penal offence of sexual harassment. The ruling by Justice A Badharudeen came while dismissing a former Kerala State Electricity Board employee's plea to quash the sexual harassment case against him filed by a woman staffer of the same …
The Karnataka High Court has dismissed a petition filed by a doctor seeking to quash an offence registered against him under Section 354-A on the complaint lodged by a patient. If any act of the kind emerges even as an allegation, the relationship of trust between the doctor and a patient gets eroded.” It was stated that the complainant, on …
The Karnataka High Court has quashed a prosecution initiated by a woman alleging offences under Section 354A of IPC for having filed the complaint three years after the alleged incident took place. The delay in the peculiar facts of this case is fatal for the reason that the offences alleged are ones punishable under Sections 354A & 354B of the …
Mentioning looks and gait of a person without any specific reference to the dress or any body part of a person would not be considered as sexually coloured remark, a Delhi Court has observed.Additional Sessions Judge Rajinder Singh of Patiala House Courts made the observation while dismissing a woman’s plea against discharge of a man under section 509 of Indian …
