Delhi High Court rules that touching minor girl's lips without sexual intent does not constitute aggravated sexual assault.

The Delhi High Court ruled that touching a minor girl's lips and sleeping next to her without sexually motivated intent does ...

Delhi High Court has held that, without sexual advances, touching and pressing a minor girl's lips and lying down next to her ...

While these acts may violate the girl's dignity and outrage her modesty, they fall short of the "overt or inferred sexual ...

The court ruled that while the acts might violate the child's dignity and outrage her modesty but without "overt or inferred ...

The judge, however, ruled that there was a clear prima facie case under Section 354 of IPC for ''assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty". The court passed the ...

The ruling came in response to a petition filed by an accused challenging a trial court’s decision to frame charges under both Section 354 (outraging modesty of a woman) of the IPC and Section ...

Former police personnel convicted for assaulting a woman in Dindigul in 2001, sentenced to prison and fined. Helplines provided for support.

The Delhi High Court has said in the absence of sexually motivated advances, touching and pressing minor girl's lips and ...

Even a minimal physical contact, when done with an intent or with the knowledge that it was likely to outrage modesty, was ...

The court also deprecated the practice of passing "cryptic, non-speaking, proforma orders” by trial courts underlining no ...

The Delhi High Court has said in the absence of sexually motivated advances, touching and pressing minor girl's lips and sleeping next to her cannot attract prosecution for "aggravated sexual assault' ...