Woman Sends 150 Condoms to Bombay HC judge

 A woman from Gujarat sends 150 condoms to Bombay High Court additional judge Justice Pushpa V Ganediwala. As a mark of protest for the recent controversial verdicts in sexual assault cases under the POCSO Act.

Condoms sent to 12 different locations

The woman, Devshri Trivedi, who send the condoms, identified herself as a political analyst. She said that she sent condoms to 12 different locations. She sent the condoms to Justice Ganediwala’s chamber too. She also sent them to the registry of the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court and the principal seat in Mumbai.

Devshri Trivedi said that she cannot tolerate injustice. She felt that a minor girl did not get justice because of a judgment by Justice Ganediwala. She was demanding that Justice Ganediwala be suspended.

Does not feel guilty

Trivedi also informed that she had sent the packets on February 9. She had received delivery reports for a few of them. She said that as a woman, she does not feel that she has done anything wrong and does not feel guilty too.

She felt that men can go scot-free for sexually assaulting girls over their clothes, by the order given by Justice Ganediwala. Women have to stand up for their rights.

Trivedi’s actions may surely be punished. Senior advocate of the Nagpur Bar Association, Shrirang Bhandarkar, said, “This is a clear case of contempt. We demand that action should be taken against this woman.”

The controversial judgement in question is a case involving a 12-year-old girl who had reportedly been groped by a 39-year-old man in December 2016.

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Skin to skin contact

On January 19 The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court headed by Justice Pushpa Ganediwala passed a judgment that the accused did grope the child but it did not constitute sexual assault punishable with POCSO but instead constituted the offence of outraging a woman’s modesty under IPC section 354.

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This verdict which was was given after four years says that The girl reportedly had her top on and since there was no “skin to skin contact”, the groping could not be ruled as an assault.

Justice Pushpa Ganediwala of the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court, in a judgment passed on January 19, held that there must be “skin to skin contact with sexual intent” for an act to be considered sexual assault. She gave a verdict that mere groping will not fall under the definition of sexual assault.

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