Girls should not be touched without her consent, schools and families should teach this to boys – Kerala High Court

Kochi: The Kerala High Court has said that boys should be taught that they should not touch a girl or woman without her consent and this should be taught to them in schools and families. Referring to the increase in cases of sexual harassment in the society, the court said that good manners and etiquette lessons should be a part of the curriculum at least from the primary level.

The High Court said that boys should understand that “no” means “no”. The court urged the society to teach boys to be selfless and gentlemen instead of being selfish and self-centred. Justice Devan Ramachandran, while considering an application challenging the order of the Internal Complaints Committee of a college and the order passed by the Principal of the college in a case of harassment, observed that showing respect to a woman is not an old fashioned attitude, but It is virtue that lasts forever.

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The judge said in the order pronounced on January 18, “Boys should know that they should not touch any girl/woman without her explicit consent. They should understand that “no” means “no”.

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