Kerala High Court Order: No Harassment If Clothes Provocative | Plain Speak With Shivani Gupta

Описание: Kerala High Court Order: No Harassment If Clothes Provocative | Plain Speak With Shivani Gupta

Section 354A of the Indian Penal Code [sexual harassment] is not prima facie attracted if a woman was wearing sexually provocative dresses, said a Kerala court in its order granting bail to 74-year-old author Civic Chandran.

According to the young woman’s complaint filed with the Koyilandy police in April, she was sexually assaulted by Chandran at a poetry camp held at Nandi Beach on February 8, 2020. She alleged that after the assault, too, Chandran kept “pestering her over the phone several times”. The First Information Report (FIR) was registered only last month.

This is the second such case against Chandran.

In the first case, the complainant had accused Chandran of sexual harassment during a book launch in Koyilandy. Chandran was at large since the first case was registered. He was granted anticipatory bail in the first case on August 2.

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