SC stays HC order directing astrology division to take a look at if alleged rape sufferer is ‘manglik’
Express News Service
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on June 3 stayed an Allahabad High Court’s May 23 order directing the Astrology Department to determine whether or not or not an alleged rape sufferer was ‘mangalik’.
A visit bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Pankaj Mithal whereas making it clear that it was not stepping into into the deserves of astrology as a science, well-known that such an order mustn’t have been handed whereas listening to a bail plea.
“This was totally out of context and this is an infringement of the right to privacy. We don’t want to join with you on this as to what astronomy has to do. We are only concerned with linking the subject matter to this issue,” Justice Dhulia remarked.
“We don’t understand why this astrology report is called for,” Justice Mithal remarked.
Supreme Court stayed the HC order remarking that an astrology report was not required in a bail plea and directed it to guage the bail plea based on deserves.
The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court gave bail to the rape accused whose lawyer suggested the court docket docket that the girl was mangalik, which astrologers contemplate is an inauspicious alignment of planets that’s obtainable in the best way by which of a cheerful married life, and his shopper didn’t intend to marry her.
The sufferer’s lawyer, nonetheless, argued that the girl was not a manglik.
In response, the court docket docket ordered both facet to submit their begin charts to the highest of the astrology division at Lucknow University inside 10 days. The head of the division was given three weeks to submit a report in a sealed cowl.
The girl has claimed she purchased intimate with the accused after he promised to marry her nevertheless he turned down her marriage proposal, saying she was a manglik.
Terming the order as disturbing, SG Tushar Mehta for UP Govt acknowledged that HC mustn’t have gone into this facet. “ The only question is while entertaining application by judicial forum can this be an aspect? The competent court cannot examine this while adjudicating this issue,” Mehta added.
The extreme court docket docket listed the case for listening to on June 26.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on June 3 stayed an Allahabad High Court’s May 23 order directing the Astrology Department to determine whether or not or not an alleged rape sufferer was ‘mangalik’.
A visit bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Pankaj Mithal whereas making it clear that it was not stepping into into the deserves of astrology as a science, well-known that such an order mustn’t have been handed whereas listening to a bail plea.
“This was totally out of context and this is an infringement of the right to privacy. We don’t want to join with you on this as to what astronomy has to do. We are only concerned with linking the subject matter to this issue,” Justice Dhulia remarked. googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“We don’t understand why this astrology report is called for,” Justice Mithal remarked.
Supreme Court stayed the HC order remarking that an astrology report was not required in a bail plea and directed it to guage the bail plea based on deserves.
The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court gave bail to the rape accused whose lawyer suggested the court docket docket that the girl was mangalik, which astrologers contemplate is an inauspicious alignment of planets that’s obtainable in the best way by which of a cheerful married life, and his shopper didn’t intend to marry her.
The sufferer’s lawyer, nonetheless, argued that the girl was not a manglik.
In response, the court docket docket ordered both facet to submit their begin charts to the highest of the astrology division at Lucknow University inside 10 days. The head of the division was given three weeks to submit a report in a sealed cowl.
The girl has claimed she purchased intimate with the accused after he promised to marry her nevertheless he turned down her marriage proposal, saying she was a manglik.
Terming the order as disturbing, SG Tushar Mehta for UP Govt acknowledged that HC mustn’t have gone into this facet. “ The only question is while entertaining application by judicial forum can this be an aspect? The competent court cannot examine this while adjudicating this issue,” Mehta added.
The extreme court docket docket listed the case for listening to on June 26.