Messages Like ‘You Are Slim, Truthful’ To Unknown Lady Quantity To Obscenity: Court docket
Mumbai:
A classes courtroom right here has dominated that sending messages like “you might be slim, look very good and truthful, I such as you” to an unknown girl at night time quantities to obscenity.
The Further Periods Choose (Dindoshi) D G Dhoble made these observations whereas upholding the conviction of a person booked for sending obscene messages on WhatsApp to a former corporator.
The obscenity have to be judged from the attitude of an “common individual making use of up to date group requirements”, famous the order of February 18.
The courtroom famous that photos and messages have been despatched to the complainant between 11 pm and 12.30 am with content material like “you might be slim”, “you’re looking very good”, “you might be truthful”, “my age is 40 years”, “are you married or not?” and “I such as you”.
No married girl or her husband who’re “reputed and (former) corporators” would tolerate such WhatsApp messages and obscene pictures, significantly when the sender and the complainant have no idea one another, the courtroom stated.
“Nothing has been introduced on report by the accused that there was any relationship between them,” it stated.
The decide held that the messages and the act amounted to an insult to the modesty of a girl.
Earlier, the accused was convicted by a Justice of the Peace courtroom right here in 2022 and sentenced to imprisonment for 3 months. He subsequently challenged the choice within the classes courtroom.
Amongst different grounds, the accused claimed he was implicated falsely within the case over political rivalry.
Nonetheless, the courtroom rejected his competition, saying it was not supported by any proof.
“Moreover, no girl would stake her dignity implicating an accused in a false case,” it held.
The prosecution has proved that the accused despatched obscene WhatsApp messages and pictures to the lady, the courtroom stated.
“Subsequently, the accused is rightly convicted and sentenced by the trial courtroom (Justice of the Peace),” the classes decide famous.
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