Tag: provocative dress

A court in Kozhikode, Kerala has said that a case of sexual harassment under Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) will not stand prima facie if the woman is wearing "sexually provocative dresses." The Sessions Judge, S Krishna Kumar, observed that to attract the offense under Section 354, there must be some unwanted sexual advances but in the instant case, the complainant's photographs showed her "exposing herself in provocative dresses". The court said, "In order to attract this Section, there must be a physical contact and advances involving unwelcome and explicit sexual overtures. There must be a demand or request for sexual favours. There must be sexually colored remarks. The photographs produced along with the bail application by the accused would reveal that defacto c...