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NO MEANS NO: lawyer quotes from Bollywood in Delhi court

This article is written by – Khyaati Bansal, Maharaja Agrasen Institute of management studies

While court procedures have been adjusted into reel lives though in an exceptionally sensationalized way, rarely would reel life be summoned inside the court. The Delhi High Court was, on Monday, aware of a lawyer citing a film exchange while making contentions in regards to ‘consent im rape [Mohd. Anwar versus State of NCT of Delhi]. 

Advocate Anu Narula in the interest of the complainant cited the notorious “No means no!” talk from Amitabh Bachchan’s discourse in Tapsee Pannu, Pink. “Multiple times she was involved with him. The lady concedes this. Assuming she needed to lie, for what reason would she concede to this too? No means no! Regardless of whether she agreed to sex with the blamed multiple times, however not the eleventh time, it implies there is no consent (the eleventh time),” said Narula. Single-judge Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar, in any case, requested that the accused be allowed bail, subject to a guarantee.

 The Court was of the view that the charged and the complainant were having a consensual illicit relationship which turned sour get-togethers’ non-satisfaction of guarantee to wed. The Court additionally took notice of the way that the accused and the complainant were both hitched to their life partners and had offspring of their own. 

“The accused and the prosecutor have had a 10 extended relationship before the episode. Afterward, they got married and the complainant exploited the circumstance to enjoy a relationship outside of their marriage. Bail allowed” Advocate Narula, through the Delhi High Court Legal Services Committee (DHCLSC) addressing the complainant, contended that her client was a married lady living alone with her three kids because of her significant other working in Qatar. 

Narula battled that the accused had moved toward the complainant and they had sex endless many times yet they were married. A while later, when the lady got pregnant, the accused gave her pills for fetus removal and from there on the spouse of the accused saw them together and precluded them from the meeting. 

Now Narula cited the famous discourse from ‘Pink ‘and said, “Multiple times she was involved with him. The lady concedes this. Assuming she needed to lie, for what reason would she concede to this too? No means no! Regardless of whether she consented to sex with the charged multiple times however not the eleventh time, it implies we don’t have her consent.” 

At the point when the Court inquired as to whether she had submitted a question to anybody, Narula said, A FIR can’t be a reference book. The charge is attempting to present a defense that the complainant documented the FIR given the accused’s significant other. 

Justice Bhatnagar expressed that the lady might have whined to the police or even to the accused’s significant other however rather she kept calm while showing that she was hand-in-glove with this game plan until the undertaking was opened up to people in general. 

“Both are married and have three kids each. They are very much aware of the results of their activities. The complainant got pregnant twice yet she didn’t say anything negative then, at that point. Presently, after such a long time she’s documenting an FIR,” the Court noticed. 

Narula interposed to say, “I’m a Bollywood fan so I should consider watching the film Pink.” Justice Bhatnagar educated her that he had indeed seen the film and that the circumstance here was very unique, Those young ladies (in ‘Pink’) were eating, drinking, and happy-making with the charged men. Drinking and eating are different from this. You can’t contrast these things and those things. Here she’s engaging in extramarital relations and needed to stay quiet about things.

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