Justice Pushpa Ganediwala of the Bombay High Court who delivered the controversial ‘skin-to-skin’ judgment in a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offence Act – has resigned.
Judgments acquitting alleged rapists such as Bishop Franco Mulakkal and Tarun Tejpal, reverse reforms introduced in the law on rape since the 2012 Nirbhaya rape case, freezing time after the infamous Mathura acquittal of two policemen in 1978.
The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has upheld the conviction of a man, who kidnapped and raped an 18-month-old neighborhood girl and left her in the jungle unattended for one full night. The HC has enhanced his life imprisonment till the end of his natural life.