MUMBAI: Merely pulling a woman’s hair or pushing her during a quarrel does not amount to outraging her modesty, the Bombay high court said on Monday while dismissing a petition seeking invocation of section 354 of the Indian Penal Code against five disciples of self-proclaimed godman Dhirendra Shastri aka Bageshwar Baba. Bombay high court The division bench of justices Revati …
A court in Mumbai has convicted and sentenced a man to six months of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 for inappropriately touching a woman who was sitting next to him in a shared auto rickshaw. Meanwhile, the accused, who also had an opportunity to explain incriminating circumstances in his statement under Section 313 of the Criminal …
