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...thing done, or gesture made, or any object exhibited, by a person, with the object of insulting the modesty of a woman. It is not known how simply asking a lady...insulting the modesty of a woman. What is insulted, for a prosecution, must be the modesty of a women and not the modesty of...Section 509 of the Indian Penal Code in the statement or words alleged to have been said by the petitioner. It appears that there is some other enmity between them; political or otherwise...
....: (2017) 7 SCC 780. The learned counsel has also argued in the alternative that even if the evidence of the prosecution is taken on its face value, the offence against the appell...appeal and it was prima facie indicated that even if the acts and actions of the accused in this case fall short of making out a case of abetment of suicide under Section 306 IPC, they mi...IPC, being of "word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman". Obviously, this Court had pondered over the broad features of this case while entertaining ...
..., intending to insult the modesty of a woman, attracts the offence punishable under Section 509 I.P.C, if such act was made intending that such word or sound shall be h...woman and an act of insulting the modesty of a woman. In order to attract Section 509 I.P.C, merely insulting a woman is no...the decency and dignity of a woman cannot be considered as trivial in nature.22. Section 354 I.P.C. prescribes the punishment for outraging the modesty of ...
...absence is not always decisive. Modesty is an attribute associated with female human beings as a class. It is a virtue which attaches to a female owing to her sex”.8. On reading of ...ventilator amounts to a deliberate act of insulting the modesty of female members of the petitioner's family and it also amounts to intruding upon their privacy, which is an offe...of the offence.34. The essence of a woman's modesty is her sex. The culpable intention of the accused is the crux of the matter...
...second petitioner, thereby attracting Section 506(i) of IPC and since the posting of the message in the website amounts to insulting the modesty of a ...definite allegation that the act had caused insult to the modesty of a woman. Slapping the posterior of a woman in a public place, winking his eye at ...clear and explicit to defame the defacto complainant and her company, to the effect that, at the most, such posting may amount to defaming the defacto complainant or her company. None of the words...
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5. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner would submit that to attract an offence under Section 509 of the Indian Penal Code, there should have been delibera...Sections 506 & 509 of the Indian Penal Code.
2. Heard. Perused the record.
3. The Police Jubilee Hills received a complaint from the...with her mother on account of the improper conduct of this petitioner who was continuously abusing and insulting her. On 05.06.2020, the petitioner and his wife Srivalli who was witness in the cas...
...S.F.I opened their shirts in front of Registrar of the University Smt. Nirmala Meena and news item was published on 15.07.2010, according to which, the said students committed offence of insulting...and order, if any cognizable offence is reported, then, FIR can be registered by a police officer.Now a days, it emerges from the investigations that students of the University are...confidential report from the Registrar once in a fortnight and Registrar of the University is directed to obtain confidential reports from all the colleges and institutions affiliated to the Unive...
...the offences punishable under Section 307 IPC.
3. The case of the prosecution in brief is that Accused No.1 was arrested on 25.03.2024 and accused No.2 to 5 are also arrested on ...the statements of LW6 & LW7 clearly show that the deceased herself lit the fire after pouring kerosene. It is not a case of homicide. The accused have been in judicia...made and at a fair look on material placed on record, this Court is of the considered view that except omnibus allegations against all the accused, no specific overtacts attributed against Accused Nos.2...
...including sex. Wherever there is an assault or insult to this feminity or the like qualities accompanying it, the offence under section 509 of the penal code will be made out. Modesty of ...2019 (A) in Abhijeet J.K.vs State of Kerala and two others observed that as per section
354 IPC prescribes the punishment for outraging the modesty of a .... The State of Andhra Pradesh1wherein this Court has observed that the intention to outrage the modesty of a woman or knowledge that ...
...Sessions Trial No. 217 of 2000, whereby and whereunder, the trial Court, after holding the appellant guilty for insulting the modesty of a woman and for attempting to co...injuries were found on the face of complainant, face may be vital region but face is not a vital organ and injuries were not so serious which were not of dangerous in nature and those injuries were not.../appellant has already undergone a period of more than nine months when he was a man of middle age of about 45 years and now he must be an old aged person, while maintaining the conviction and sen...
...complainant, Sri Mulla Khuddus, S/o Fakeer Ahamad, aged 58 years, a resident of Masid Thota, Podili, and the elected President of the local unit of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), was parti...custody was filed and it was allowed, and the Petitioners were sent to police custody for a period of two days i.e., from 24.07.2025 from 10.00 a.m., to 26.07.2025 till 10.00 a.m. Thus, the purpose of...stringent conditions:
i. The petitioners/Accused Nos.1, 3 and 4 shall be enlarged on bail subject to them executing a bond for a sum of Rs.10,000...
...that a woman was sexually assaulted just because she was wearing provocative clothes. Sexually provocative dressing of a victim cannot be construed as a legal ground to absolve an accused from the...has the freedom to wear whatever he/she wants to wear subject to the laws of the land. Objectifying women in regard to what she wears cannot be justified. There is no reason why a woman should be...a woman. The right to wear any dress is a natural extension of personal freedom guaranteed by the Constitution of India. Even if a woman wears a sexually provoc...
...expressions can never be tolerated. There cannot be any thought that women dress only to lure male attention. It is wrong to say that a woman was sexually assaulted just because she was wearing provocative clothes. Sexually provocat...extension of personal freedom guaranteed by the Constitution of India. Even if a woman wears a sexually provocative dress, that cannot give a licence to a man to outrage her ...punishable under Sections 354 and 341 of the Indian Penal Code.
5. The prosecution allegation is that, on 8.2.2020 at 5 p.m., there was a cultural camp in Kadal veedu on...
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Section 509 of the IPC: Insulting the modesty of a woman:
40. The other allegation in ...the modesty of a woman by acts such as uttering words, making sounds or gestures, exhibiting objects, or intruding upon her privacy with the intention of insulting her ...
a woman.—Whoever, intending to insult the modesty of any woman, utters any word, makes any sound or ge...
...the petitioner has called the respondent no. 2 a prostitute. To call a woman, even if she is ones own wife a prostitute and to call her that 8 criwp557.18 she earns money by ...petitioner did not treat the respondent No. 2 well. He would beat her and would call her a prostitute and that she earns money by doing business of prostitution. It is further alleged that the...obscene words should be of such a nature as to cause annoyance to others. He submitted that the WhatsApp messages are personal messages. Therefore sending of personal messages on personal account of...
..., intending to insult the modesty of any woman, utters any word, makes any sound or gesture, or exhibits any object, intending that such word or sound shall be heard, or that such gesture or object shall be seen, b...gesture or by the exhibition of any object. The word modesty of a woman has received interpretation in the context of Sections 354 and 509 of the India...protection of an attribute, which is peculiar to a woman, as a virtue which attaches to a female on account of her sex. The essence of woman's modesty is her sex. ...
...component of the offence. Without evidence of actual annoyance to a third party, the mere allegation of an obscene act cannot sustain prosecution under Section 296 BNS.
...Section 79. There is no specific allegation that the petitioners acted with the intention of insulting the modesty of any woman, nor is there any mention of words, sound...AND OTHER
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...intention of insulting the modesty of a woman, then it would be improper, nay illegal, to reject such convincing evidence and/or not to act on the same merely because ...ingredients:—(1) Intention to insult the modesty of a woman.(2) The insult must be caused -(i) by uttering any words, or making any sound or gesture, o....6. The intention to insult the modesty of a woman is the essential ingredient of the offence. So, if the Court, on a consideration ...
..., A.S.I posted at Police Chowki, Bhagat-ki-Kothi, P.S Shastri Nagar, Jodhpur with the allegation that some students related to S.F.I opened their shirts in front of Registrar of the University Smt. Nirmala Meena an...established.With regard to the incident which occurred recently in the University premises of an outrageous attempt made by some person to molest the modesty of a PG girl ...registered by a police officer.Now a days, it emerges from the investigations that students of the University are regularly approaching the University authorities for raising demand...
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10. There is distinction between an act of merely insulting a woman and an act of insulting the modesty of a ...modesty of a woman.
11. Section 509 I.P.C. criminalises a 'word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman'...necessary to show that the modesty of a particular woman or a readily
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