Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 192 · Decided 18 March 2021
Aparna Bhat & ORS. v. State of Madhya Pradesh & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 192 · [2021] 4 S.C.R. 479
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 329/2021
- Decided
- 18 March 2021
- Bench
- A.M. KHANWILKAR, S. RAVINDRA BHAT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
Headnote
Bail condition - Accused guilty of sexual offence - Rakhi tying as a condition for bail, propriety - Imposing conditions that implicitly tend to condone or diminish the harm caused by the accused and have the effect of potentially exposing the survivor to secondary trauma The law does not permit or countenance such conduct, where the survivor can potentially be traumatized many times over or be led into some kind of non- voluntary acceptance, or be compelled by the circumstances to accept and condone behavior what is a serious offence - Using rakhi tying as
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