Rape on promise of marriage: SC stays HC order for victim’s horoscope
The Allahabad High Court directed Lucknow University’s Astrology Department to determine if she was a Manglik or not after the accused refused to marry her on the ground.
The Allahabad High Court directed Lucknow University’s Astrology Department to determine if she was a Manglik or not after the accused refused to marry her on the ground.
On Tuesday, Tejpal's lawyer Amit Desai requested the high court's bench at Goa comprising Justices M S Sonak and M S Jawalkar to hold the hearing "in-camera", as was done in the past during the trial of the case in the lower court.
Mehta made the disclosure in a lighter vein to the Bombay High Court, during a discussion for setting up a fresh date for the ongoing hearings related to an appeal filed by the Goa government, against the acquittal of former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal by a trial court in May this year.
The acquittal, Mehta said, would deter potential victims of sexual assault from approaching courts for justice.
The court directed its registrar judicial to communicate the order to Manipur Central Jail for release of the activist before 5 p.m. on Monday. The counsel for the petitioner submitted that he would press for compensation at the next hearing.
Meanwhile, Trinamul MPs Derek O’Brien, Sukhendu Shekhar Roy and Mahua Moitra wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting him to remove Mehta from this post for his alleged meeting with Adhikary.
The Solicitor General had told the apex court yesterday that the Centre is doing a lot to contain the Coronavirus outbreak, but there are “Prophets of Doom in our country who only spread negativity, negativity, negativity”.
However, reacting to the SG's remarks, convicts lawyer AP Singh said to the court, "Why only in this case there is a hurry? Justice hurried is justice buried."
Jammu and Kashmir was put under virtual curfew on 5 August when the Modi government scrapped Article 370 and split the state into two union territories.
