Indian actresses Tapsi and Sona expressed surprise at the Supreme Court and asked the rape accused if he would marry the survivor.
Tapsi Pannu and Sona Mahapatra have expressed displeasure with a Supreme Court judge who asked a rape accused if he would marry a survivor.
A government employee has been charged with raping a girl and at their hearing on Monday, the SC bench asked the accused if he agreed to marry the girl.
Tepsi took to Twitter to vent his anger over the comment. He wrote, "Did anyone ask the girl this question? If she wants to marry him by rape! Is that a question! Is it a solution or a punishment? A simple disgust," he wrote.
"It is sick and deeply disturbing. In the past, marrying a rapist to his victim has been a rude and disgusting solution. How can the Supreme Court of India fall to these levels?"
When the Supreme Court was told that the accused was already married, it was asked to seek formal bail from the concerned court in the matter. A bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobade heard the petition filed by the accused, who was working as a technician in Maharashtra State Electricity Production Company Limited and appealed to the Supreme Court against the February 5 order of the Mumbai High Court. Who had canceled the bail offer?
When the hearing in the case began, the bench, which also included Justices AS Bopna and V Ramsuberman, asked the accused, "Are you ready to marry her?"
"If you want to marry her, we can consider it, otherwise you will go to jail," the bench added. "We are not forcing you to marry her." The Supreme Court later granted the accused protection from arrest for four weeks.
It was alleged that the man had repeatedly raped and threatened the girl since she was in ninth grade.
The petition said that when the girl and her mother reached the police station to lodge a complaint, the petitioner's mother asked them not to do so and said that they were ready to make the girl their daughter-in-law.
He said that in June 2018, when the girl turned 18, the petitioner's mother refused to marry him, after which a complaint was lodged.
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