Justice Chandrasekharan Sudha made the statement whereas convicting a person for sexually harassing a 17 year-old-girl.
Notably, the choose took vital notice that one of many causes cited for the acquittal was the failure of the police to look into the complaints made by the accused and fifty native residents towards the prosecutrix and her mom.
Justice Sudha was at a “lack of phrases” on discovering that the alleged “crime” of the sexual assault sufferer and her mom was residing in society and not using a male member, sporting western garments, “corrupting” the minds of younger boys within the locality, having questionable character and submitting false complaints towards “harmless boys” of the realm.
The Courtroom noticed that these “complaints” mirrored a deeply troubling and unacceptable mindset.
“What a lady or lady chooses to put on is a matter of her private selection. Neither her neighbours, nor society, nor the accused, nor counsel showing in a courtroom of legislation has any proper to dictate her clothes. It’s merely none of their concern. The suggestion {that a} lady sporting denims might ‘corrupt younger boys’ displays a deeply troubling and unacceptable mindset. The reply doesn’t lie in controlling the garments of women and girls. Mother and father and society should as a substitute educate their youngsters to manage their conduct, respect private boundaries and deal with each human with dignity, whether or not at house or outdoors,” the Courtroom warned.
