Kerala writer, accused of sexual harassment, gets anticipatory bail on the basis of ‘regressive’ reasoning

Kohzhikode sessions court gives relief to Kerala writer Civic Chandran, accused of sexual harassment and under Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, on specious grounds, despite the 2018 amendment to the Act, which seeks to make the bar against grant of anticipatory bail to those accused under it stringent.
Kerala writer, accused of sexual harassment, gets anticipatory bail on the basis of ‘regressive’ reasoning

Adv. J. Sandhya is a practicing lawyer based in Trivandrum, a social activist, and a former member of the Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights.

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