Additional Sessions Judge Sanjay Sharma, while hearing a matter relating to sexual harassment against a man who threatened and abused a woman in 2019 made the observation that F**k Off is a sexually colored remark. The complainant made her complaint u/s 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and in her complaint stated that, the accused and other persons entered her house and threatened to throw her and her family out of the house. She added that the accused called her “baazaru aurat and told her to f**k off”.
The accused was charged by the Mahila Court u/s 354A, 506 and 509 of the Indian Penal Code. After this the accused moved to Sessions Court against the framing of charges.
The counsel for the accused submitted that the accused did not speak these words and neither did he threaten to throw the complainant and her family out of their house. The Counsel also submitted that the accused did not make any sexually colored remarks and he only uttered words to make her leave. The counsel presented the Cambridge Dictionary before the Court according to which “F**k Off is a slang which refers to leave or go away, especially in a rude manner.”
The court rejecting this contention stated that the word is an offensive word, and in Indian society it is not used to ask a person to go away and given the circumstances of the case, it cannot he said that the accused used these words for merely asking the complainant to go away.
As per the court, the word is “humiliating, offensive, abusive, and a sexually colored remark.”
The Court rejected the application filed by the accused and upheld the charges framed by the Mahila Court.
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