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Oct

Curious Illogic

   Posted by: gargi   in India

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…by our esteemed Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court has held that unlike the charge of attempt to murder, the Indian Penal Code does not recognise the charge of attempt to rape. Rape is said to have been committed only if a man inserts his sexual organ into the victim. Any other act only qualifies for the offence of outraging a woman or child’s modesty.

How about a failed attempt to blow up Parliament? Would that be terrorism or merely an offence of outraging our nationalistic and patriotic sensibilities. After we can use Freud to justify how the bullet/bomb is akin to a (male) ’sex organ’ and how Parliament is a woman!

or indeed a failed attempt to evade taxes? I can just imagine the defence.

My lord, the IT department caught us before we could commit the crime

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Kailash Koppikar
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Just when we thought the courts were our last hope and the last bastion against political tomfoolery, the Supreme Court goes ahead and proves that the law is an ass.

I have heard of getting ‘technical’ but this takes the cake!

Student leaders should immediately use this to repeal the anti-copying legislation since a failed attempt at copying will not be ‘copying’.

October 6th, 2006 at 3:12 pm
gargi
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now we know why the prevention of corruption act doesn’t work here :)

October 6th, 2006 at 7:29 pm

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