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V Satish (Satish Velankar) is the Indian politician and the National Organiser of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Currently he is in-charge of West-Zone (Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra) and Andhra Pradesh, Bharitya Janata Party.
- Introduction
- Background
- Submissions on The Behalf of Appellants
- Submissions on Behalf of Accused
- Important Legal Provisions of POCSO Act
- Analysis by The Supreme Court
- Judgment of Hon’Ble Supreme Court
- Order by The Supreme Court
- Conclusion
- References
In its judgment Attorney General for India v. Satish and another(2021), the Hon’ble Supreme Court set aside the judgment of Bombay High Court which held that skin to skin contact is a prerequisite for an offence of sexual assault to be made out under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012. The case arose out of appeals fi...
Filing of appeals
Four Appeals were filed before the Supreme Court by the appellants – Attorney General for India, National Commission for Women, State of Maharashtra and appellant – accused Satish against the judgement dated 19 January 2021 passed by Bombay High Court(Satish v. the State of Maharashtra) holding that skin to skin contact is necessary to constitute an offence of sexual assault under Section 7of the POCSO Act. Another appeal was filed by the State of Maharashtra against the judgement of the same...
Facts: Satish v. State of Maharashtra
The victim, aged about 12 years had gone out to obtain Guava when the accused, a man residing in the neighbourhood took her to his house under the pretext of giving her Guava and then pressed her breast and tried to remove her salwar. When the victim shouted, the accused pressed her mouth. The informant in the case was the mother of the victim who lodged a complaint against the accused. The Special Court convicted and sentenced the accused-Satish for the offences under Sections 342, 354 and 3...
Facts: Libnus v. State of Maharashtra
In this case, the accused was charged with the offence of aggravated sexual assault. The victim was a girl aged 5 years and her mother was the informant in the case. When the mother and father of the victim were not at home, the accused Libnus came to their house asking for the father of the victim. On finding out that both parents of the child were out, he held the hands of the victim, lowered her pants and thereafter unzipped his pants and showed his penis to her and then asked her to lay d...
Following submissions were made on the behalf of Appellants: 1. The interpretation of the provisions of the POCSO Act as done by the Bombay High Court would have a devastating effect on society at large. 2. All the alleged acts of the accused including taking the victim to his house, removing salwar, pressing breasts and mouth were acts amounting t...
Following submissions were made on the behalf of accused: 1. While relying on the case of Bandu Vithalrao Borwar v. State of Maharashtra(2016),the Learned Senior Advocate appearing for the accused submitted that the expression ‘sexual intent’ can not be confined to any predetermined format or structure and as the POCSO Act defines the term ‘sexual ...
The Protection of Children from Sexual Offence Act, 2012 has been enacted to protect children from the offences of sexual assault, sexual harassment and pornography.
The Court observed that while interpreting a statute, such a construction has to be adopted which promotes the object of the legislation and prevents its possible abuse. The Court also observed tha...After analysing the dictionary meaning of the words ‘touch’ and ‘physical contact’, the court expressed its agreement with the submission of appellants that both words have been used interchangeabl...The Court agreed with the submission made on the behalf of accused that expression ‘sexual intent’ in Section 7 cannot be confined to any predetermined structure and is a question of fact to be dec...The Court observed that it is a settled position that penal statutes have to be construed strictly but it is equally settled that clauses of a statute should be construed with reference to the cont...A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court consisting of Justice Bela M. Trivedi, Justice U.U. Lalit and Justice S. Ravindra Bhatt heard the case and disposed of the five appeals. The majority judgement was authored by Justice Bela M. Trivedi on behalf of herself and Justice U.U Lalit and Justice Ravindra S. Bhatt delivered his concurring opinion sep...
The Supreme Court set aside the order passed by the Bombay High Court in the case of accused Satish and restored the order of the Special Court. The accused was convicted for the offences punishable under Section 8 of the POCSO Act and Sections 342, 354 and 363 of the IPC. The accused-Satish was directed to undergo rigorous imprisonment for three y...
In this case, the Supreme Court has given a landmark judgement by reversing the controversial judgements passed by the Bombay High Court which were heavily criticised for being bad in law. However, it is unfortunate the High Court in a country would pass such a judgment that makes a mockery of the law by completely disregarding the legislative hist...
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Supreme Court of India. Attorney General For India vs Satish on 18 November, 2021. Author: Bela M. Trivedi. Bench: Uday Umesh Lalit, S. Ravindra Bhat, Bela M. Trivedi. REPORTABLE. IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA. CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION. CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1410 OF 2021. (@ SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CRL) NO. 925 OF 2021)
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Dec 2, 2021 · In the matter of Satish v. State of Maharashtra , on a POCSO issue, the Hon’ble Bombay High Court on 19th January 2021 had recently acquitted the accused from the offence of sexual assault under Sections 7 and 8 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences ( POCSO ) Act, 2012.
