‘Can’t girls feel hungry at night’

Ishrat S Banwait

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 22

As the defence counsel for the accused in an abduction case questioned the presence of girls at the Night Food Street at 3 am, the Judge asked him what the boys were doing there. Two accused, Rajinder and Taran, were arrested yesterday for forcibly sitting in the car of two women and misbehaving with them in the wee hours of August 20. The two were sent to judicial custody.

As the police sought one-day remand for the accused, the defence counsel started questioning the presence of girls in the area at that time. He said, “A question arises as to what the girls were doing there at 3 am”. To this Civil Judge (Junior Division) Suman Patlain said, “What were the boys doing there? Can’t girls feel hungry at night?” She said the parameters had to be same for girls as well as boys.

In the wee hours of Sunday, two boys had allegedly misbehaved with two girls after forcibly sitting in their car and asking to be dropped at Sector 17. The duo was arrested under Sections 365, 354 and 34 of the IPC.