The Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi government to constitute an independent multidisciplinary Medical Board to decide, within four weeks, on parents’ request for a hysterectomy for their adult daughter with cerebral palsy, holding that disability alone can never be the only ground to deny reproductive autonomy and that its order is not an approval of the surgery.
The Telangana High Court has set aside a trial court order permitting a potency test of an accused in a sexual offence case, holding that medical and scientific tests of an accused cannot be ordered routinely or merely because the allegation is grave, and must meet the tests of relevance, necessity and proportionality.
Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court refused to cancel the criminal case against a man accused of uploading a private video of himself and his wife on Facebook. The court strongly criticized the act, saying it was a serious breach of trust and privacy in a marriage. Justice Vinod Diwakar, who delivered the ruling, stated that the husband had “gravely breached the sanctity of the marital relations” by sharing such a video online.
New Delhi, March 7: The Delhi High Court has ruled that merely touching and pressing the lips of a minor girl or sleeping next to her cannot be considered “aggravated sexual assault” under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act unless there is a sexually motivated intent behind it.