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The Times of India
The Times of India
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Swati Deshpande | TNN

Abuses can't be given in chorus and atrocity not inferred when whistling from one's terrace, says Bombay HC

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court bench at Aurangabad recently granted pre-arrest bail to a trio accused by a woman belonging to a Scheduled Caste community of committing offences of sexual nature under the Atrocities Act by whistling and making sounds and gestures from the terrace of one of the accused towards her.

The HC said, "Merely because some sound is created by a person in his house we cannot directly infer that it is with such an intention that it is with sexual nature towards the informant."

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