NCPCR urges Maharashtra to appeal against High Court order
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A decide had stated groping a minor with out “skin to skin contact” was not sexual assault.
The high physique for baby rights, NCPCR, on Monday requested the Maharashtra authorities to appeal against an order by the Bombay High Court the place the decide stated groping a minor with out “skin to skin contact” was not sexual assault.
“The Commission requests you to take necessary steps in the matter and file an urgent appeal against the aforesaid impugned judgment of the honourable High Court,” Chairman of NCPCR Priyank Kanoongo wrote to Chief Secretary of Maharastra, Sanjay Kumar.
Justice Pushpa Ganediwala of the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court, in a judgment handed on January 19, held that there have to be “skin to skin contact with sexual intent” for an act to be thought-about sexual assault.
The verdict put aside the ruling of a decrease courtroom order against convict Satish Bandu Ragde, which had discovered him responsible of sexual assault of a 12 yr previous below the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012.
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