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If you want to give information about any of the following offences, then such information has to be registered by a woman police officer or any other woman officer:
- Grievous hurt by use of acid
- Voluntarily throwing or attempting to throw acid
- Assault or criminal force on a woman with the intent to outrage her modesty
- Sexual harassment
- Disrobing
- Voyeurism
- Stalking
- Rape
- Rape causing death or persistent vegetative state
- Rape by husband when spouses were separated
- Gang Rape
- Outraging the modesty of a woman by words, gestures or actions
For offences committed from C to L mentioned above, if the same was committed or alleged to have been committed on someone who is suffering from some mental or physical disability (both temporary or permanent), then such information will be recorded by a police officer at their residence or any place that is convenient to the person reporting. Depending on the circumstances, they can even request an interpreter or a special educator.
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Once you have reported the crime by filing an FIR, the officer in charge must send the report to a Magistrate, who will take note of the case without any unnecessary delay, and proceed with the investigation. This is a mandatory step that the police have to follow, as it allows the Magistrate to take control of the investigation, and if necessary give appropriate directions to the police.
Laxmi
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Nyaaya
October 25, 2022
The Prevention of Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 acknowledges that instances of sexual harassment often occur in isolation or in circumstances where evidence is difficult to come by.
In many of these instances, summoning witnesses, securing recordings or video footage, reviewing screenshots become a challenge. This leaves the committee with the word of the victim against the word of the perpetrator.
It is important to note that the Evidence Act is not applicable to the enquiry proceedings under PoSH. The Evidence Act of 1872 codifies the importance of proof in order to establish the existence of a crime. However under the prevention of sexual harassment act, 2013 this criterion isn’t required. Thus a complaint can be registered without any evidence and often a case/complaint is registered on the testimony of the victim.
The criteria to accept a complaint is not proof of the sexual harassment but the prima facia existence of sexual harassment. The law works on the principle of not proving harassment beyond reasonable doubt but the balance of probability.
Shalini
January 21, 2025
we want to know that about, if a women who is 60 to 70 years old between harass by a word in publicly by a PCR Team. Just because his son doing something strange with someone else and complaint against him. Women don’t know about the matter because she is on work. What should we do ?
The matter was her son molesting someone from his window by action ( As per complaining lady). The lady registered a complaint against him. In between, no one knows what happened at that time what exactly he doing ? what action he doing ?
By the time PCR team reached there, the boy had run away from home. After this, when his mother came home, the PCR team started using harassing words against his mother (Tujhe hi ghasit ke le jayenge, Maa awara hai tabhi beta bhi aisa hai). She was shocked when she saw 10 to 15 people of the PCR team in front of her house. Just because his son was standing on his balcony doing strange acts which no one else had even seen. His mother is widow and doing work as a maid, making food at someone’s home. She is not educated but she is a sweet, pure and soft hearted person. As neighbours we have known her since childhood.
We want to know, Is this a right way to investigating by the PCR Team ? Is this right behave with her lady who herself is already suffering from all this situation and can’t do anything because she is also a mother.
Is this a right way to handling by the PCR Team ? without any investigating how they are using a harass word for anyone ?
If the son had molested the woman (as per her lady). Then what should we say about the PCR team’s people, who are doing the same thing with her elderly woman ( Mother) and Senior inspector not taking any action on their PCR Team ?
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Chand Shaikh
June 10, 2026
I am continuously harrased from my husband to vacate the property.
He is continuously asking Divorce.
He is making false allegations on me. He is telling I might poision his food.
He threatning of commiting sucide .
I got his night time dirty messages with name ****** which he deleted.
He morphed my photos with other men
Nyaaya
September 13, 2026
I. A Married woman cannot be forced to vacate the household because she has a right of residence in that household (Since it qualifies as a Shared household as per the Domestic Violence Act). If forced to vacate by means of threats or intimidation, she can file for a residence order and also request the Magistrate to pass an order for him to be removed from the premises citing a threat to her bodily or mental integrity).
II. File a divorce petition at the earliest, citing cruelty during the course of the marriage and also seek maintenance. Also, he cannot merely get a divorce granted from the court by demanding or threatening you for it. He must file it in court, prove the grounds for divorce, and you also have a right to contest against his submitted grounds. Your consent is also important for the divorce, since mutual consent for divorce is emphasised upon by the law.(Also Refer III)
III. This constitutes mental cruelty as per the BNS, so the remedy is to file a police complaint at the earliest to have an official record of the false accusations and mental agony caused during the course of marriage. Seeking maintenance is also one of the effective remedies alongside the divorce application, as it will help to meet basic living expenses and avoid financial hardship.
IV. Conflict during marriage does not on its own hold a spouse liable for abetment to suicide. Receiving threats of suicide is also outside the scope of liability. Only if there is Active aid or engagement to push the concerned individual towards suicide, liability is attracted.
V. Adultery is not a punishable offense anymore, so the optimum remedy is to include it among the grounds for divorce.
VI. Firstly, the immediate remedy is to file a complaint at https://cybercrime.gov.in/Webform/Accept.aspx Then, file an FIR and also contact the local police station’s cyber cell to follow up with the matter. Invoke criminal intimidation and blackmail charges of the Bharatiya Nyaaya Sanhita. Harassment by him also counts as insulting modesty, and the morphed explicit content triggers obscenity under cyber laws, and criminal defamation charges also come into play if the images were made to suggest an affair. Liability for the morphed images will also differ depending on whether circulation has happened or not.