The court docket was listening to a prison revision case filed by the petitioner

New Delhi:

A Delhi court docket has upheld the order of a magisterial court docket to cost a person with sexual harassment for utilizing a generally used English expletive to threaten a girl. The court docket noticed that there was a prima facie case of the petitioner utilizing the phrase with the intent to insult the modesty of the complainant.

The court docket was listening to a prison revision case filed by the petitioner, in opposition to whom a Mahila Court in August 2022 had ordered framing fees beneath sections 354 A (sexual harassment and its punishment) 509 (phrase, gesture or act supposed to insult the modesty of a girl) and 506 (punishment for prison intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.

According to the complainant, the accused used the expletive “f**k off” and threatened her on May 9, 2019. “This court does not find any material illegality, irregularity or jurisdictional error in the impugned order framing charges… Accordingly, the criminal revision petition filed by the petitioner is dismissed,” Additional Sessions Judge Sanjay Sharma mentioned in a current order.

The court docket famous that the complainant had particularly alleged that the accused used the expletive, moreover utilizing an abusive phrase in Hindi.

“The said word is an offensive word and in Indian society, schools or colleges, this word is not used to ask anyone to leave or go away. In the ordinary sense, the said word is abusive, offensive and humiliating,” the classes court docket mentioned.

Rejecting the argument that the dictionary that means of the phrase was to depart or go away, the court docket mentioned that the mentioned phrase actually was a “sexually coloured remark”. Besides, given the details and circumstances of the incident, it couldn’t be mentioned that the petitioner was merely meaning to ask the complainant to depart or go away, the court docket mentioned. The court docket additional mentioned that the complainant had particularly said that the petitioner requested her to close up and sit in a nook and likewise threatened her.

“There is sufficient ground for proceeding against the petitioner for the offences…,” the court docket mentioned.

The Chandni Mahal police station in central district had registered an FIR in opposition to the accused on the premise of the complainant’s assertion.