The Bombay HC’s skin-to-skin decision will have far-reaching consequences: Attorney General KK Venugopal

The High Court found that pressing a 12-year-old child’s breast without removing her clothes is simply outraging a woman’s modesty under Section 354 of the IPC, not sexual assault under POCSO. On Wednesday, Attorney General (AG) KK Venugopal told the Supreme Court that a Bombay High Court decision acquitting a man of an offence under […]

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