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Chief Justice Intervenes In High Court’s ‘Manglik’ Order For Rape Survivor


CJI D Y Chandrachud requested the Supreme Court docket registry to arrange a bench to be aware of the case. (File)

New Delhi:

An Allahabad Excessive Court docket order directing {that a} rape survivor’s horoscope be examined to search out out whether or not she is manglik prompted Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud to intervene on Saturday though he’s abroad. 

What makes the CJI’s transfer much more uncommon is that the Supreme Court docket is on a summer time break and no hearings are held on Saturday and Sunday. High sources within the Supreme Court docket instructed NDTV that the CJI came upon in regards to the Allahabad Excessive Court docket order this morning and requested the registry to arrange a bench to be aware of the difficulty. Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Pankaj Mithal held a particular sitting at 3 pm and stayed the excessive court docket order.

Some sections of Indian society imagine that an individual born beneath the affect of the planet Mars (mangal) has “mangal dosha” (affliction). The superstition goes that marriage between a manglik and non-manglik is inauspicious.

An Allahabad College professor jailed for raping a girl on the pretext of marriage had filed a bail petition earlier than the Allahabad Excessive Court docket, stating that he couldn’t marry the girl as a result of she is manglik. On Could 23, the excessive court docket directed the pinnacle of Lucknow College’s astrology division to review the girl’s horoscope to examine whether or not his declare was true. 

The court docket requested for the girl’s horoscope to be submitted in a sealed envelope and directed that the report be submitted inside every week. 

The Supreme Court docket bench requested Solicitor Common Tushar Mehta, who appeared within the matter, “Mr Mehta, you could have seen this?”

“I’ve seen this. It’s disturbing. I’d request your lordships to kindly keep this order,” the Solicitor Common responded.

An advocate showing for the complainant instructed the bench the excessive court docket handed the order with the consent of the events. “However this was completely out of context. What’s this bought to do with the subject material,” the bench mentioned, including, “other than it, it entails so many different options… proper to privateness has been disturbed, and we do not wish to spell out, there are such a lot of different facets.”  The bench posted the case for additional listening to in July. 


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