SC stays Allahabad HC ruling on rape, calls it ‘insensitive’

The Supreme Court on Wednesday, March 26, stayed the observations made in an order of the Allahabad High Court which said mere grabbing of the breast and pulling the string of a ‘pyjama’ do not amount to offence of rape.

A bench of Justices B R Gavai and Augustine George Masih observed that it was



painful to say that some of the observations made in the high court order depicted total insensitivity and an inhuman approach.

The bench issued notice to the Centre, Uttar Pradesh government and others seeking their responses in the suo motu proceedings initiated over the high court’s March 17 order.