A sexual harassment case can’t be cancelled as a result of the complainant and the accused have reached a ‘compromise’, the Supreme Courtroom dominated at this time. The courtroom put aside a Rajasthan Excessive Courtroom order, which had given reduction to a instructor accused of sexually harassing his minor pupil, and ordered his prosecution.
The matter pertains to a 2022 case in Rajasthan’s Gangapur metropolis. A minor Dalit lady accused a authorities faculty instructor for sexual harassment in a police grievance. Accordingly, a case was filed. The case additionally invoked the POCSO Act and SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The minor’s assertion was additionally recorded.
Nevertheless, the accused instructor, Vimal Kumar Gupta, obtained an announcement from the lady’s household on a stamp paper. This assertion stated that they registered a police grievance out of a misunderstanding and not wished any motion towards the instructor. Police accepted this and filed a report. However a decrease courtroom rejected this assertion. The accused then approached the excessive courtroom, which accepted it and ordered the FIR cancelled. Ramji Lal Bairwa, a social employee, challenged this excessive courtroom judgment within the Supreme Courtroom. The bench of Justice CT Ravikumar and Justice PV Sanjay Kumar overturned the excessive courtroom ruling, clearing the decks for the accused instructor’s prosecution.