: Bombay HC pulls up judge for using foul language, slang in rape case #IndiaNEWS The Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court pulled up an additional sessions judge for using slang words and foul language

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Bombay HC pulls up judge for using foul language, slang in rape case #IndiaNEWS
The Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court pulled up an additional sessions judge for using slang words and foul language while recording the testimony of a rape complaint and in the judgement he wrote later, Live Law reported on Thursday. A bench of Justices Ravindra Ghuge and BU Debadwar said in the ruling on March 1, which was made public on Thursday, that the words used by the lower court judge were “utterly disrespectful??? to women.The High Court was hearing a plea filed by the Maharashtra government challenging an August 2012 judgment of a sessions court acquitting a 52-year-old man in a rape case. The prosecution’s case was that the accused, who is related to the complainant, raped her at her house in March 2010.“At the very outset, we need to record our strong displeasure about the choice of a particular word, which has been repeatedly used by the learned Additional Sessions Judge SV Ranpise in the judgment,??? the bench said.The court noted that even though the complainant, in her testimony in Marathi, had not used any objectionable terms, the judge repeatedly used them while drafting the judgement in English. “These words are used in slang language, are treated to be foul words and are utterly disrespectful...Read more

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