Criminal Intimidation--Threat to Upload Private Bathing Video -- Offence of imputing unchastity under S. 506 IPC made out
Threatening to upload a woman's private bathing video on social media constitutes "imputing unchastity" under Section 506 Part II of the Indian Penal Code. The concept of "unchastity" must be interpreted not through patriarchal morality but through the constitutional values of dignity, privacy, and sexual autonomy under Article 21. Any unwarranted interference with a woman's control over her private sexual identity amounts to imputing unchastity. Further, non-recovery of the mobile phone containing the alleged video is not fatal to prosecution if credible oral evidence establishes the offence.
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