In India, it’s not groping if you have clothes on?

CBS News reports an appalling decision by a Bombay court that

New Delhi —An Indian court has ruled that groping a child cannot be deemed sexual assault as long as there is no “skin-to-skin contact” or “sexual intent.” The January 19 ruling by Bombay High Court Justice Pushpa V. Ganediwala cleared a 39-year-old man who had been accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in 2016 of any wrong doing.

In the ruling, the judge stated “per the definition of ‘sexual assault’, a ‘physical contact with sexual intent without penetration’ is an essential ingredient of the offence.”

Read the article at the link below for more information.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bombay-high-court-groping-case-india-child-sexual-assault/