NEW DELHI: Bombay excessive court docket’s Nagpur bench, whereas quashing conviction of a man beneath POSCO case, stated that saying ‘I love you’ is barely an expression of feeling and doesn’t in itself quantity to “sexual intent.” A bench of justice Urmila Joshi-Phalke acquitted a 35-year-old man accused of molesting a teenage lady in 2015. While listening to the case, the bench in its order stated that any sexual act contains inappropriate touching, forcible disrobing, indecent gestures or remarks made with the intention to insult the modesty of a lady. Earlier, a classes court docket in Nagpur convicted the man beneath Indian Penal Code and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act in 2017. The bench had additionally sentenced him to a few years’ imprisonment.
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The man was accused of accosting the 17-year-old lady whereas she was on her manner residence from faculty. The grievance talked about that the man held her palms and stated, “I love you.” The teenager went residence and instructed her father, and a FIR was lodged. The HC, whereas quashing the man’s conviction, stated that no circumstance indicated that his intention was to determine sexual contact with the lady. “Words expressed ‘I love you’ would not by themselves amount to sexual intent as contemplated by the legislature,” the court docket stated.“There should be something more to suggest that the real intention behind saying ‘I love you’ was to drag the angle of sex,” the HC added.The case would not fall beneath the purview of molestation or sexual harassment, it additional famous. “If somebody says that he is in love with another person or expresses his feelings, that in itself would not amount to an intent showing some sort of sexual intention,” the order stated.
