A sexual harassment case can’t be cancelled as a result of the complainant and the accused have reached a ‘compromise’, the Supreme Court docket dominated at this time. The courtroom put aside a Rajasthan Excessive Court docket order, which had given reduction to a instructor accused of sexually harassing his minor scholar, and ordered his prosecution.
The matter pertains to a 2022 case in Rajasthan’s Gangapur metropolis. A minor Dalit woman accused a authorities faculty instructor for sexual harassment in a police grievance. Accordingly, a case was filed. The case additionally invoked the POCSO Act and SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The minor’s assertion was additionally recorded.
Nevertheless, the accused instructor, Vimal Kumar Gupta, obtained a press release from the woman’s household on a stamp paper. This assertion stated that they registered a police grievance out of a misunderstanding and not wished any motion in opposition to the instructor. Police accepted this and filed a report. However a decrease courtroom rejected this assertion. The accused then approached the excessive courtroom, which accepted it and ordered the FIR cancelled. Ramji Lal Bairwa, a social employee, challenged this excessive courtroom judgment within the Supreme Court docket. The bench of Justice CT Ravikumar and Justice PV Sanjay Kumar overturned the excessive courtroom ruling, clearing the decks for the accused instructor’s prosecution.