{"id":42145,"date":"2016-03-26T05:22:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T23:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=42145"},"modified":"2016-03-26T05:22:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T23:52:15","slug":"crime-women-rising-daily-basis-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/crime-women-rising-daily-basis-court","title":{"rendered":"Crime against women rising on a daily basis: Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42069\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42069\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/JNU-students.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42069\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"42069\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/jnu-students-umar-anirban-granted-six-month-interim-bail\/jnu-students\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/JNU-students.jpg?fit=249%2C166&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"249,166\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"crimes against women\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;crimes against women&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;crimes against women&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/JNU-students.jpg?fit=249%2C166&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/JNU-students.jpg?fit=249%2C166&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-42069 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/JNU-students.jpg?resize=249%2C166&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"crimes against women\" width=\"249\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">crimes against women<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>New Delhi,<\/strong> There is no fear in the minds of perpetrators of crimes against women which have been rising on a daily basis, a Delhi court has said while sending a 20-year -old youth to jail for a year for outraging the modesty of a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Special Judge Sanjeev Aggarwal handed over a one-year jail term to Central Delhi resident Abhimanyu while setting aside a magisterial court&#8217;s order acquitting him.<\/p>\n<p>The judge held that the convict &#8220;had assaulted the victim and also outraged her modesty when she questioned him as to why he was following her on daily basis&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No ground for probation is made out in the present case, as Section 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of the IPC was amended&#8230;to curb this menace, as the crimes against women are increasing on daily basis without any fear in the minds of persons perpetuating the said crimes,&#8221; the court said.<\/p>\n<p>In its order, the court also considered the fact that the convict was only 20 years of age at the time of the incident and was the only bread-earner of the family, saying, &#8220;interest of justice would be met if the convict is sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for one year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Besides, the court also held the convict guilty under section 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) IPC and imposed a fine of Rs 1,500 on him.<\/p>\n<p>According to prosecution, the woman had filed a complaint on December 9, 2013, that she was working as nursing orderly and the youth had abused, assaulted and outraged her modesty.<\/p>\n<p>She had claimed that for one year, the convict used to abuse her whenever he met her on the way.<\/p>\n<p>The youth, however, had claimed innocence saying he had been falsely implicated in this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, There is no fear in the minds of perpetrators of crimes against women which have been rising on a daily basis, a Delhi court has said while sending a 20-year -old youth to jail for a year for outraging the modesty of a woman. 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