‘Adolescent love cannot be controlled by the Courts’; Andhra Pradesh High Court grants bail to POCSO accused
“In the case of lack of inducement or threat, the Court must be conscious of the fact that they are not dealing with criminals.”
“In the case of lack of inducement or threat, the Court must be conscious of the fact that they are not dealing with criminals.”
“The petitioner’s prosecution and conviction will lead to pain and tears in the eyes of the family members and future of two families will be at stake, whereas, if the impugned FIR is quashed, it would serve the ends of justice.”
“The cases involving emotional situations where the parties of the story have taken decisions and acted upon them on the basis of peculiar circumstances of their lives, have to be adjudged and adjudicated according to their own peculiarity and situational dissection of facts.”
“The torment on the victim has the potentiality to corrode the poise and equanimity of any civilized society. It has been rightly said that whereas a murderer destroys the physical frame of a victim, a rapist degrades and defiles the soul of a helpless female.”
“The petitioner stated that he and the complainant met on a dating App and not on matrimonial App. The allegation of false promise of marriage is only an afterthought.”
“Though justice has got to be administered in accordance with the law enacted by the Legislature. The concept of justice is elastic and is imperceptible. There can be no hard and fast line constricting the power of the High Courts to do substantial justice.”
“In discussions surrounding the empowerment of women, education is rightly recognized as a fundamental pillar. However, when such incidents occur that force a girl to abandon her studies, the very notion of empowerment is compromised and society at large bears the consequences.”
Bombay High Court commented that refusal to discharge the accused merely with an observation that intercourse was forcible at some time cannot be said to be a justified exercise of power.