After two consecutive rulings related to child sexual abuse from Justice Pushpa Virendra Ganediwala, a Supreme Court collegium has decided that it’s best that she continues as an additional judge and has withdrawn its request to the Ministry of Law to make her permanent.
Justice Pushpa Virendra Ganediwala is the lawmaker who ruled that pressing breasts without skin-to-skin contact is not sexual abuse, which led to a nation-wide furor.
Pressing Breast without disrobing not "Sexual Assault" As per the POCSO Act but will be Offence under sec 354 IPC i.e. assaults or uses criminal force to any woman
— Rameshwar Singh Thakur 🇮🇳 (@Rameshwar_101) January 24, 2021
: BOMBAY HIGH COURT.
To be Honest I Think Such precedent/Judgment will Encourage the criminal Minds in future.
"The HC opined that touching a minor's chest would not amount to sexual assault unless the accused removed the top worn by the girl or slid his hand within her garment." This is ridiculous, and such a dangerous precedent to set.
— tantanatan🌻 (@tanishka_s2) January 24, 2021
https://t.co/TIeYgjAw0o
Following this, reservations against her appointment as the permanent judge had started being vocalised, and the final nail in the coffin proved to be another judgment, just as skewed as the one before, which ruled that unzipping pants cannot be categorised as sexual abuse under the POCSO act.
Are you f-ing kidding me? pic.twitter.com/BBaOQfYdDG
— June Paul (@journojuno) January 23, 2021
In what is not a very common practice, the Supreme Court withdrew its recommendation from the Law Ministry and Justice Gendiwala will continue to be the additional judge for the Nagpur bench of the Mumbai High Court.
collegium to withdraw its recommendation to the Centre to make Nagpur Bench judge Justice Pushpa Virendra Ganediwala, an additional judge in Bombay high court, a permanent judge of the HC.
— Avantika Mehta (@bitingfriends) January 30, 2021
GOOD!! https://t.co/M8kwnH5wIQ
