A Mumbai Metropolitan Magistrates Court of MM Manoj Vasantrao Chavan ruled that Section 354 of the IPC is gender neutral in relation to the offender, and thus convicted and sentenced a mother of three to one year in prison for invading another woman’s modesty. The Court observed that as per section 8 of the IPC,
Sec 354 IPC is Gender Neutral, Woman Can Be Held Guilty of Outraging Woman’s Modesty- Mumbai Court
