KOCHI: Booking an offence under section 509 of the Indian Penal Code does not hold water if the victim is not a female, the Kerala High Court has held. The court issued the order while quashing a ...
Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday (August 28) observed that calling a woman 'gandi aurat' or being rude to her does not amount to the crime of insulting the modesty of the woman. The Delhi High ...
Mumbai: “Written” insulting words, either on email or social media, that could lower the dignity of a woman, is sufficient to book someone under section 509 (insulting the modesty of woman) of the ...
Calling one's own wife a "prostitute" amounts to "insulting the modesty of a woman", said the Bombay high court at Aurangabad and directed that police were at liberty to probe whether such case was ...
Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], January 8 (ANI): A day after Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya divested Sports Minister Sandeep Singh of his ministries following an FIR against the former India Hockey ...
HYDERABAD: To provide more teeth to the law dealing with those who harass women, the State Government has decided to make the crime a non-bailable offence by amending Section 509 of the IPC. HYDERABAD ...
While setting aside a trial court order, the Delhi high court has said that insulting a woman or being rude to her and not behaving in a chivalrous manner will not amount to outraging the modesty of a ...
In an earlier column, I began to talk about gender biases in Indian laws, given the background of reports submitted by the task force on women and children and the National Commission for Women. Let ...
Late on Monday night, the Chandrapur police registered offences under Section 509 of IPC and Section 3(1)(10) of Atrocities Act against Vijay Wadettiwar who is the minister of state for forest, tribal ...
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