New Delhi, March 27 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the Allahabad High Court's recent observations on grabbing of a woman's breasts and pulling the drawstrings of her "pyjama" not amounting to an attempt to rape and admonished that the order reflected total "insensitivity" and "inhuman approach". Taking a strong exception to the High Court's observations made in its March 17 verdict, the apex court termed it a "very serious matter".
"In normal circumstances, we are slow in granting stay at this stage. But since the observations appearing in paragraphs 21, 24 and 26 are totally unknown to the cannons of law and depict total insensitive and inhuman approach, we are inclined to stay the said observations," a Bench of Justices BR Gava...