more-inThe Delhi High Court's judgment acquitting Peepli Live co-director Mahmood Farooqui has raised divergent views in the legal community on the grey line between sexual consent of a woman and rape. ‘New defence’Former Additional Solicitor General and noted human rights lawyer Indira Jaising termed the order a “sophisticated but deeply flawed judgment on whether or not rape took place”. The case of the accused (Farooqui) was bare denial (of rape). He said, “Sexual consent has to be categorical. The facts related in the FIR and the High Court judgment shows that the two had gone halfway.

Source: The Hindu September 26, 2017 20:15 UTC