Supreme Court Expands Meaning of ‘Unchastity’, Says Threat to Leak Woman’s Bathing Video Punishable Under Section 506 IPC
The Supreme Court recently delivered an important judgment protecting the dignity, privacy and sexual autonomy of women while interpreting Section 506 Part II of the Indian Penal Code relating to criminal intimidation. The Court held that threatening to upload a woman’s private bathing video on social media amounts to imputing “unchastity” to a woman and is punishable under criminal law. The judgment was delivered by a Bench of Justice Sanjay…
