: Sexual harassment case: Kerala government moves HC for cancelling bail to author Civic Chandran #IndiaNEWS The Kerala government on Friday moved the High Court challenging a sessions court order granting

Sexual harassment case: Kerala government moves HC for cancelling bail to author Civic Chandran #IndiaNEWS
The Kerala government on Friday moved the High Court challenging a sessions court order granting anticipatory bail to author Civic Chandran in an alleged sexual harassment case, The New Indian Express reported.A court in Kozhikode had on August 2 granted anticipatory bail to Chandran in a case in which a Dalit woman writer had accused him of attempting to molest her. The author was booked under Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code as well as provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.However, Kozhikode Sessions Judge K Krishna Kumar on August 2 had said that in order for the Atrocities Act to be applicable, the accused person would have to know that the woman belonged to a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe.The Kerala government, in its appeal seeking to set aside the order, said that the sessions judge’s finding that Chandran did not know that the woman was from a Scheduled Caste was against the facts of the case. It said that the question as to whether the author knew about her caste could be answered only after interrogating him.The state government said that the investigation carried out till now has shown that the allegations against Chandran are true and added that his interrogation...Read more

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