Throwing love chit on married woman amounts to outraging her modesty: Bombay High Court
The Hindu
Hearing the matter on August 4, Justice Rohit Deo said the very act of throwing a chit on a married woman, that professes love for her and contains poetic verses, is “sufficient to outrage her modesty”.
The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court has observed that throwing a chit professing love for a married woman amounts to outraging her modesty and imposed a fine of ₹50,000 on the accused while directing it to be paid to the victim as compensation. Hearing the matter on August 4, Justice Rohit Deo said the very act of throwing a chit on a married woman, that professes love for her and contains poetic verses, is “sufficient to outrage her modesty”. The Akola sessions court had earlier convicted the accused, Shrikrushna Tawari, under Indian Penal Code Section 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and sentenced him to two years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of ₹40,000, of which ₹35,000 was to be paid as compensation to the victim.
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