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Saying ‘love you’ outrages modesty of women: HC
The New Indian Express Kozhikode
|December 25, 2025
THE Chhattisgarh High Court, hearing the appeal against the conviction judgment order of the trial court, ruled that saying ‘I love you’, holding hand and pulling woman towards self amounted to offence as it outrages the modesty of a woman.
The accused, 19 years at the time of incident in Raigarh district, was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment (RI) for 3 years besides a fine of 21,000 under Section 354 of IPC (criminal force ona woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and the Protection of Ch
This story is from the December 25, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Kozhikode.
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