Kolkata High Court’s advice to girls to control their sexual urges is absolutely wrong: Indian Supreme Court
India’s Supreme Court has expressed disapproval of a Kolkata High Court bench ruling that girls should control their sexual urges.
The Indian Supreme Court has said that judges should avoid expressing their personal views and opinions in such sensitive matters. Such an observation is absolutely wrong.
The Supreme Court, taking suo motu notice of a Calcutta High Court verdict in a case of abduction and rape of a teenage girl, sent a notice to the West Bengal government in early December asking if it would oppose the verdict. Appealed or not.
While hearing the matter further on Thursday, the Supreme Court said that the High Court’s statement that ‘puberty girls should control their sexual urges instead of enjoying two minutes of sex’. Not only is it wrong, but it can create new problems.
The court had said in an earlier hearing that judges should decide a case in the light of law and facts and should avoid preaching in the course of justice.
The apex court said that the observations made by the High Court bench in this case were totally unnecessary. He also questioned the legitimacy of the court’s decision.
In this case, a case was filed against the accused under Indian Penal Code and rape of minor girls laws. And the Kolkata High Court acquitted the accused.
It should be noted that before this matter came to the High Court, a sub-court of Bengal had convicted the accused of kidnapping and raping a minor girl. The accused filed an appeal against this decision in the Kolkata High Court.
The two-member bench of the High Court acquitted the accused in its judgment and said in its observations that it is the responsibility of every adolescent and teenage girl to protect the purity of her body.
The Indian Supreme Court said that this decision is flawed not only in this sentence but in every paragraph.
The Supreme Court said that honorable judges are expected to refrain from expressing and preaching their personal views in cases. The next hearing on this case will be held on January 12.
Some users have also criticized this decision of the Kolkata High Court on social media.
Josh Kumar, a user on micro-blogging site X, has sarcastically asked whether the judges told the girls to control their sexual urges as judges or as sexologists.
Another user, Arjun Kumar, has requested that “this argument of the judges be dismissed.”
In his response, a user named Sushil said that such people should never be in any government institution, especially the judiciary, who try to be moral police.
The West Bengal government has filed an appeal in the Supreme Court against the High Court’s decision.
The Supreme Court has fixed the date of January 12 for the hearing of the matter by combining the appeal and the suo motu issue.