Sexual assault | The Supreme Court deferred the ‘Rakhi’ order of the MP High Court

The Supreme Court in an order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on Thursday asked a suspected sex offender to meet his victim at his home and allowed him to distribute a ‘rakhi’ for his bail.

Justice A.M.

The court had earlier sought Attorney General KK Venugopal to consider the issue of imposing bail conditions for sex offenders who further harassed their victims.

The verdict was based on a petition filed by nine women lawyers challenging the bail order of the High Court.

Nine lawyers led by advocate Aparna Bhatt and senior advocate Sanjay Parikh had said that the High Court order was “trivial” for them. [victim’s] the strokes “.

Mr. Parikh had argued that there are many examples of court orders that emphasize crimes committed by women due to the crimes they have already committed.

The law prescribes the victim far away from the accused. Instead, the High Court had ordered the accused to come to the woman’s house – the place where the crime was alleged to have taken place.

The petition said that the High Court had also ordered the accused to “give a gift of 11,000” to the woman, a practice usually offered by the sisters to the brothers on such occasions.

The High Court had ordered the accused to give ordered 5,000 to the woman’s son for “purchase of clothes and sweets”.

Mr. Parikh had argued that such orders only succeeded in victimizing women more and retarded the work done to sensitize the courts, how damaging it would be when “the way of marriage or the accused and survivors There will be an attempt to compromise by “arbitration between”.