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Jan 28, 20233 min read

Is Teasing A Criminal Activity In India?

What does eve teasing really mean, eve teasing is annoyance or irritation that is being done against women, the eve teasing is referred to as an act of harassing women physically, verbally, intentionally or maliciously to make fun, irritate, embarrass or make fun of her by the virtue of jokes, sign, gestures and taunts etc.


In India, the male thinks that they are superior to women in India and thus this thinking leads to such circumstances they think that they are more powerful than women both emotionally and physically and there is such thinking of the men that they are not doing anything wrong it's just for fun.


As per recent research it is said that eve teasing is witnessed by every single woman who steps out of the house for any kind of work it has been also noticed that male dominance or masculinity has the dominance over the women since prehistoric period and the same is witnessed nowadays too, the girls or the women are abused, physically, verbally, mentally and emotionally and so on sometimes it becomes so harsh that the government has to make certain guidelines for the safety of the modesty of the women, let's see the most famous guidelines by the government of India that are known as the Vishaka Guidelines also known as India very first sexual harassment law:-

In the landmark case of the Vishaka vs State of Rajasthan, the Apex court demonstrated the acts that amount to sexual harassment and these are:-

  • Any unconsented or unnatural sexually determined behaviour either direct or indirect.

  • Any unusual physical contact

  • Request or demand for the sexual favour

  • Any such verbal, physical or non-verbal behaviour that leads to sexual harassment

The Punishment of Eve Teasing in India?

The concept of eve teasing is not defined under the Indian Penal Code but the meaning is given under different provisions of the Indian Penal Code:-


Eve teasing under the Code of Criminal Procedure?

  • In eve teasing the police has the power to arrest the accused without a warrant and can start the investigation without the permission of the court

  • The people can complain before the police and get their complaint registered and if the police refuse to register the complaint the person has the authority to lodge a private complaint before the magistrate under section 200 of the CRPC along with 156(3) application.

  • Under section 468(2)(c) of CrPC, one has the period of three years to file an FIR starting from the date of the event

Eve Teasing under Indian Penal Code?

  • Under section 294 IPC in this kind of offence, the girls are being protected from the men who disturb them by their act which is obscene in nature

  • Under section 354 IPC this section deals with the offence that we know as the offence of molestation, this offence is known as when any act of the person is such obscene in nature that it outrages the modesty of the woman and this also may cause physical harm to the women, this type of offence is categorised under the non-bailable offence

  • Section 354A of the Indian Penal Code:- a man who displays pornography content to a woman against the will of the women

  • Demand any kind of sexual favours, then this amounts to sexual harassment

  • There are more such offences that are being mentioned in the Indian Penal Code for the offence of sexual harassment such as stalking, voyeurism

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