Supreme Court forbids judges to comment on gender

The Supreme Court’s decision to prohibit judges from making gender-conservative remarks came as a corrective voice from within the Supreme Judiciary.

On 18 March, during a virtual hearing by the Chief Justice of the Court (CJI) on March 1, the court ruled to ask a rapist’s lawyer to interrogate his client. Narrated Survivor.

On March 8, Chief Justice Bobde said he was called “completely wrong”. The CJI stated that the court had the highest regard for femininity. The statement of the top judge marked International Women’s Day.

Ten days later, Justice AM Khanwilkar and S.K. Ravindra Bhat’s bench urged the courts to refrain from using logic / language, which mitigates a sexual offense and tends to despise the survivor.

“Even the solitary frequency of such order or utterance in court adversely affects the entire judicial system of the country, which guarantees fair justice to all, and in particular the victims of sexual violence (any ) The so-called minor offense) from the victim most of the way, ”said the judgment, written by Justice S. Ravindra Bhat.

The verdict barred courts from trying to get married or to have a compromise between the sex offender and his victim. The decision was made on the basis of an appeal against an order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court allowing the alleged molester to tie his victim. Rakhi on that.

The decision is one of a series of interventions with which the apex court has clamped down on the mistreatment and sexual stereotypes of women.

Some notable decisions on sex stereotyping, including prescribing the Vishaka guidelines on sexual harassment of women in working places, and Justice DY Chandrachud’s landmark judgment criticizing the establishment’s claim of establishing a permanent commission for women armed forces officers Women were physically weaker than men.

Justice Chandrachud in the Permanent Commission on Women Officers said, “Women officers of the Indian Army have praised the force … The track record of their service to the nation is beyond reproach. Aspiring for their abilities on the basis of gender To keep is an honor not only as women, but also for the dignity of the members of the Indian Army – men and women – who work as equal citizens in a common mission.

In the Anuj Garg case, the Supreme Court reprimanded the “notion of romantic patriarchy” which “in practical effect, kept women in a cage, not a post”.