New Delhi, April 16 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked high court judges to be careful in making observations in cases involving sexual crimes against women as it took strong objection to a recent remark by an Allahabad high court judge who told a rape survivor that she "herself invited trouble" while granting bail to the accused.

A bench comprising justices BR Gavai and Augustine George Masih remarked: "What is this discussion that 'she herself invited trouble'. One has to be careful when saying such things especially on this side."

The court was referring to observations made by justice Sanjay Kumar Singh in a March 11 order, where he granted bail to a man accused of raping a woman, who had who had accompanied the accused at a bar ...