Rajoana Death Penalty Case: Center Gets Last Chance From SC

Rajoana death penalty case: Center gets the last chance from Supreme Court, will have to answer within 2 weeks.

The Center has been given two weeks by the Supreme Court to decide on the petition of Balwant S Rajoana in the murder case of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh.

This is the last chance for the center from the court on Monday. Three weeks’ time was sought from the government for this so that in the current situation, there would be enough time to take a decision on the matter.

Rajoana death penalty case: Chief Justices Bobde and Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubrahmanyan said to Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, ‘Why does the government want three weeks and what is happening on it.

The bench added, ‘Three weeks is enough time for us. We told you to handle it by 26 January and today is 25 January. The bench said, “We are giving you one last chance, two weeks.”

Sexual assault on a minor girl’s chest cannot be considered sexual assault. According to the Law to Protect Children from Sexual Offenses (Poxo Act), as long as there is no skin-to-skin touch of two different people, it cannot be considered a crime.

The Bombay High Court has said this about the incident with the minor girl. In the Nagpur bench of the High Court, Justice Pushpa Ganeediwala has given this decision in the case related to the 12-year-old girl.

The case was filed under Poxo Act

The order stated that in the case of Poxo law, there should be a skin-to-skin touch induced by sexual malfeasance in case of sexual assault, then it comes under the category of crime.

The case was in December 2016. In this, the 39-year-old accused had taken the girl to her house on the pretext of giving food. There he had molested the girl. The police had registered the case under the Poxo Act.

Was imprisoned for three years

The Sessions Court held the man guilty of the crime and sentenced him to three years imprisonment. The order was challenged by the convict in the High Court.

The High Court said in its order that under the Poxo Act, crime is not made but an attempt was made to disturb the modesty of the girl child. For this, an offense under Section 354 of the IPC took place.

Therefore, the High Court granted relief to the convict Satish from three years imprisonment under the Poxo Act but retained his one-year imprisonment under Section 354