{"id":4984,"date":"2026-02-17T22:38:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=4984"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:38:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:38:01","slug":"loosening-pyjama-string-is-attempt-to-rape-sc-sets-aside-allahabad-hc-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=4984","title":{"rendered":"Loosening pyjama string is &#8216;attempt to rape&#8217;: SC sets aside Allahabad HC ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has overturned a controversial Allahabad High Court ruling, declaring that groping a woman and untying her pyjama string constitutes an &#8220;attempt to rape.&#8221; The apex court emphasized the need for judicial compassion and empathy in handling sexual offense cases, reviving stringent charges under the Pocso Act. A committee will now develop guidelines to foster sensitivity in judges.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has overturned a controversial Allahabad High Court ruling, declaring that groping a woman and untying her pyjama string constitutes an &#8220;attempt to rape.&#8221; The apex court emphasized <a href=\"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=4984\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}