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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Shweta Sharma

India’s top court stays ‘inhuman’ ruling on sexual assault of minor

The Supreme Court of India stayed a controversial High Court order which held that “grabbing the breasts” of a minor girl and snapping the drawstring of her trouser did not amount to an attempt to rape.

The apex court called the judgement passed by Allahabad high court as “shocking” and “inhuman” in the case of alleged sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl on Wednesday.

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