Children spending more time in their homes and increased usage of mobile phones may be reasons
READ MOREA 29-year-old man was arrested on Sunday for spying on his women employees by fitting a CCTV camera in the ladies’ toilet. The accused has been identified as S Sanju of Pallivilai near Nagercoil.
READ MOREThe Bill, piloted by Minister for Law, Courts and Prisons, C Ve Shanmugam amended the Indian Penal Code in its applicability to Tamil Nadu.
READ MOREInaugurated the new projects including the ‘Modernised 181 Women Helpline’ of ….and laid the foundation stone for One Stop Centers.
READ MOREThe HC gave the ruling last month on a plea by a Muslim couple, seeking protection of their life & liberty from respective families, who were against the marriage due to age difference.
READ MOREOn January 19 Justice Pushpa Ganediwala ruled that groping a minor’s breast without “skin-to-skin contact” wasn’t sexual assault.
READ MOREFashion brand to investigate the death of 20-year-old Jeyasre Kathiravel, reportedly killed by supervisor at Natchi Apparels.
READ MOREThe act of holding a minor girl’s hands and opening the zip of pants will not come under the definition of “sexual assault” under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act 2012. However, the Court held that such acts would amount to “sexual harassment” under Section 354-A(1)(i) of the Indian Penal Code.
READ MOREA young girl staying at an orphanage in Vyasarpadi in Chennai frantically dialed the Childline number 1098 and got in touch with officials. She immediately narrated the harrowing experience faced by the children, accusing the director and his kin of sexually abusing girls in the orphanage, especially during the pandemic. She told officials about the alleged abuse faced by her and 18 others at the unlicensed orphanage.
READ MOREThe court found out that around 1,000 such cases were pending, in which a majority of them have come to a grinding halt, without any progress for over three years.
READ MOREThere must be physical contact — ‘skin-to-skin contact with sexual intent’ — and mere groping would not amount to sexual assault, ruled the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court recently. The HC opined that touching a minor’s chest would not amount to sexual assault unless the accused removed the top worn by the girl or slid his hand within her garment.
READ MOREThe Supreme Court on Tuesday said the value of a woman’s work at home was no less than that of her office-going husband and enhanced the compensation to relatives of a couple who died when a car hit their scooter in April 2014 in Delhi.
READ MORE“Sexual abuse takes away dignity and self-confidence, and that the right of reputation cannot be protected at the cost of right to dignity,” the judge said.
READ MOREScant judicial attention has been paid to the casteist and patriarchal underpinnings of consent.
READ MOREAll government orders, circulars and notifications issued in connection with Covid-19 should be uploaded in the state’s official website and in the ‘stopcorona’ website, Madras high court has said.
READ MOREDetailed guidelines have been issued after several complaints from former students led to the arrests of multiple teachers in Chennai over sexual harassment complaints.
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