{"id":263358,"date":"2025-03-21T01:24:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T01:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/sc-raps-lawyer-for-using-consensual-relationship-in-bail-plea-of-client-booked-for-minors-rape\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T01:24:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T01:24:20","slug":"sc-raps-lawyer-for-using-consensual-relationship-in-bail-plea-of-client-booked-for-minors-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/sc-raps-lawyer-for-using-consensual-relationship-in-bail-plea-of-client-booked-for-minors-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"SC raps lawyer for using &#8216;consensual relationship&#8217; in bail plea of client booked for minor&#8217;s rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/118783427.cms?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"SC raps lawyer for using &#8216;consensual relationship&#8217; in bail plea of client booked for minor&#8217;s rape\" title=\"SC raps lawyer for using &#8216;consensual relationship&#8217; in bail plea of client booked for minor&#8217;s rape\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-brcount=\"15\">A lawyer on Thursday got an earful from the <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supreme Court<\/a> for repeatedly writing \u201cconsensual relationship\u201d in a bail plea of his client, who is accused of a minor girl&#8217;s rape.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/dynamic_link.cms?msid=107107653&subsecid=1715249553&pos=toppotime:1-->Justice Surya Kant said, \u201cWe got mentally sick after reading the petition. At least 20 times you have written &#8216;<a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/consensual-relationship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">consensual relationship<\/a>&#8216; in the SLP (special leave petition). What is the age of the girl? You yourself say in the petition that she was a minor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bench wanted to set the fact straight with the lawyer that consent was immaterial if the survivor was a minor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery paragraph you have written \u2018consensual relationship&#8217;. What do you mean by consensual relationship? You do not know the ABCD of law \u2026 why are you filing SLP,\u201d hit out Justice Kant, who was on the bench with Justice N Kotiswar Singh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you an AoR (advocate-on-record)?\u201d the bench asked.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none;\" data-ga-impression=\"Events_widget_$pagename#Impression#url\" class=\"liveEventMain_widget custom_ad\">\n<div class=\"topContain\">\n<div class=\"imgBox\"><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"logoTitle\">Live Events<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/live_events_widget.cms?pagename=articlepotime:1--><br \/>AoRs are lawyers authorised to file cases and pleadings in the Supreme Court. The top court conducts AoR examinations for the lawyers.\u201cHow are these people qualifying (for the AoR)? You don&#8217;t know the basic law\u2026 20 times you have said \u2018consensual relationship&#8217; \u2026Tomorrow you will say there was a consensual relationship with an 8-month-old child,\u201d it added.The lawyer apologised to the bench, which later issued notices to police and others on the bail plea.<br \/><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:0--><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/sc-raps-lawyer-for-using-consensual-relationship-in-bail-plea-of-client-booked-for-minors-rape\/articleshow\/119252919.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lawyer on Thursday got an earful from the Supreme Court for repeatedly writing \u201cconsensual relationship\u201d in a bail plea of his client, who is accused of a minor girl&#8217;s rape. Justice Surya Kant said, \u201cWe got mentally sick after reading the petition. At least 20 times you have written &#8216;consensual relationship&#8216; in the SLP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/118783427.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[3126,13723,56286,143818,6048,13688,17681,5851,6677,39782,2007],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263360,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263358\/revisions\/263360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}