Via PTI
MUMBAI: The Bombay Top Court docket has imposed a high quality of Rs 25,000 on an suggest for filing objectionable pictures with a petition in search of to quash a rape case in opposition to a person.
A department bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and S M Modak in an order seen that “no sense of share or discretion” used to be exercised via the petitioner’s suggest whilst annexing the “extremely objectionable” pictures with the plea. The replica of the order dated October 7 used to be made to be had on Tuesday.
The bench got here around the pictures whilst listening to the petition filed via the accused guy’s spouse in search of to quash the FIR and rate sheet filed in opposition to him in a rape case.
“Advocates fail to grasp that those petitions are filed/positioned ahead of the Registry and get circulated via more than a few departments, exposing the events concerned within the pictures,” the courtroom stated.
It additional famous that annexing such pictures used to be an invasion of privateness of the events and directed the suggest to forthwith take away the similar from the petition replica.
“We predict all advocates to workout some discretion and share while annexing pictures that are extremely objectionable,” the courtroom stated.
“For the stated habits of the suggest, we direct the suggest to deposit prices of Rs 25,000 with the Kiritikar Regulation Library inside of two weeks,” the bench directed.
MUMBAI: The Bombay Top Court docket has imposed a high quality of Rs 25,000 on an suggest for filing objectionable pictures with a petition in search of to quash a rape case in opposition to a person.
A department bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and S M Modak in an order seen that “no sense of share or discretion” used to be exercised via the petitioner’s suggest whilst annexing the “extremely objectionable” pictures with the plea. The replica of the order dated October 7 used to be made to be had on Tuesday.
The bench got here around the pictures whilst listening to the petition filed via the accused guy’s spouse in search of to quash the FIR and rate sheet filed in opposition to him in a rape case.
“Advocates fail to grasp that those petitions are filed/positioned ahead of the Registry and get circulated via more than a few departments, exposing the events concerned within the pictures,” the courtroom stated.
It additional famous that annexing such pictures used to be an invasion of privateness of the events and directed the suggest to forthwith take away the similar from the petition replica.
“We predict all advocates to workout some discretion and share while annexing pictures that are extremely objectionable,” the courtroom stated.
“For the stated habits of the suggest, we direct the suggest to deposit prices of Rs 25,000 with the Kiritikar Regulation Library inside of two weeks,” the bench directed.