Bombay High Court Urges Diligence in POCSO Case, Emphasizes Victim Privacy and Swift Justice
As you may recall from my previous post, the Bombay High Court had taken suo moto cognizance of the horrific sexual assault incident in Badlapur involving minor girls, aged just 4 years and recognizing the gravity of the situation, the court requested a detailed report to be presented on 27.08.2024.
Resuming the hearing the court continued its diligent oversight of the case, addressing critical concerns and emphasizing the importance of protecting the victims' privacy and ensuring swift justice.
The Advocate General Dr. Saraf submitted before the Court the timeline of the investigation carried out from 16.08.24 to 27.08.24.
1. Submission of the State
Investigation: Dr. Birendra Saraf, Advocate General, stated that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) is conducting a diligent investigation, leaving no stone unturned. A timeline of the investigation from August 16, 2024, was presented to the court and placed on record.
Actions by the School Education Department: The Advocate General also submitted various Government Resolutions issued by the Maharashtra Government, which were taken on record.
Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) Involvement: Dr. Saraf confirmed that blood samples were sent to the FSL. The court emphasized the need for timely FSL reports, especially in POCSO and rape cases, to avoid trial delays. Dr. Saraf assured that steps would be taken to prioritize sexual assault cases in FSLs.
2. Court's Observations
Disturbing Facts: The court observed troubling aspects of the investigation by Badlapur Police Station, noting that:
Victims were required to go to the police station, violating Section 24 of the POCSO Act.
Victims were examined by male doctors, breaching Section 27(2) of the POCSO Act.
Media Conduct: The court found that some media outlets had disclosed the institute's name where the incident occurred, violating Section 23(2) of the POCSO Act, which prohibits revealing the identity of the child involved.
3. Court's Order
Warning to Media: The court made it clear that any further violations of Section 23 of the POCSO Act by media outlets would result in directives to the police to take appropriate action against the concerned parties.
Committee for Child Safety: The court suggested forming a committee of eminent persons to propose guidelines for the safety and security of children in schools, regardless of gender. The Advocate General confirmed that such a committee was already in place and was open to expanding its scope to include all children.
People seeing former playboy Bruce Wayne begin hanging around a young single dad clearly in poverty and giving him and job and his kids getting on the Wayne scholarship:
“You’re giving him a lot of financial power over you, aren’t you worried?”
Vlad, who made his first million at twenty five and has been stealing artifacts to fund several offshore accounts but can’t access the money without seeming suspicious and is using Bruce as a tool to his own gain, but is very theater kid coded:
“Oh you know how it is as a single father, I need to think of my kids. We’re just so grateful for Mister Wayne’s generosity.”
Some people put their whole hearts into trying to make Mollymauk a Glee character when he is, at his core, somewhere between a washed up magician selling fake silk sheets on daytime television and a line cook in an ankle-length fur coat who you meet at a drag show, who feeds your dog filet mignon and then ghosts you halfway through your third date.
Can you say which crew member you saw doing that? Because trying to find anything on Twitter with the new rate limit is a nightmare.
Red Son is drawn as Toko here. Toko is a character who is one alter in a 2-alter system. The other alter in Toko’s system is an infamous and violent serial murderer. It’s all, like. Horrifyingly ableist. A literal caricature of systems.
Literally every system that I know is VIOLENTLY uncomfortable with this art. Especially since this person is presumably a singlet. So yeah
Edit: For clarification, this isn’t fanart, this is art from an official crew member, which is why I am placing higher standards on them. If this was some random fanartist I wouldn’t even begin to care. Also I’m just annoyed about it, so I’m bitching about it, I’m not saying that they should be harassed or whatever. Not saying that he’s an ableist person either
"Star Wars isn't dead y'all are just haters"
"Disney saved Star Wars"
"It's the Woke Agenda that ruined Star Wars"
My mans, Disney single-handedly destroyed the Sequel Trilogy despite the Force Awakens being the gateway to something potentially fantastic; MCU'd the Mandalorian (a story which originally had nothing to do with the Prequel and OG Trilogy aside from sharing a universe and exploring a sect of a completely different culture/ideology); ego-boosted both Filoni and Favreau to the point where their OC Verse is not only canon but openly disregarding the Star Wars Universe Bible/Lore; gave us a snippet of what an extremely misunderstood indigenous culture is actually like (instead of portraying them as the savages one of the white leads mislabeled as animals that deserved to be slaughtered) only to then wipe out the tribe we got to know for no reason other than shock value thus alienating indigenous/poc viewers in the most disrespectful way possible; completely threw away the entire message of TCW (that being a clone does not make you incapable of being your own person who has their own thoughts, ideals, moral compass and overall identity) by making TBB (a show that does have it's strong points in set design, soundtrack orchestration and overall sound design, but is extremely weak on both characterization and storytelling because they either make the meaningful plot points stretch too thin or focus on the wrong character completely) their go to show marketed for kids instead of the actual kids programming that people shit on for being for, surprise, kids; constantly disregards valid critique from their consumers (to the point where infighting in the Fandom has gotten extremely ugly) that people either give up on interacting completely or simply vanish and take all their things with them (because no one seems to understand where these critiques come from, or how being unable to admit your special little show is imperfect is actually not a good thing for both you and others).
This isn't even accounting for the fact the Fandom seems to have doubled in it's overall toxicity since Disney took over.
Which is par for the course when a mega corporation takes hold of something that started out extremely political in nature anyway.
The Cash Cow machine needs feeding after all...
I don't think Adam and Eve are specifically One and Brother One incarnate but they do have way too many shared traits to be purely coincidental reuse of character tropes.
….I think about this moment a lot in my head guys….every single time I judge myself about the silly fictional men my scrambled brain latches onto without any identifiable rhyme or reason….EVERY TIME I’m reminded of this video and put in my place AUUUU
There was really no need to get a whole community called out like how could they expose us like this /j
Mr. Puzzle’s VA (Jello) is so selfaware without even trying jksjsksp. Very educated on how bizarre ace minds operate and that both amuses and scares me that they’ve got us pinned down lol. I think there’s probably something deeper to be said about it…with how being aroace (detached from those emotions and the way it’s traditionally presented IRL) leads you to emotionally attaching to non-human presenting fictional creatures instead but….nah just straight up generalizing and boiling it down to the word monsterfuckers is also fair enough lol. I don’t personally consider myself in that group of aces however I certainly can seem like it if I’m not careful
Aside from making me feel exposed, these guys are so funny I absolutely loved listening to the playthrough and how each of them just had fun together as a group of friends. Go and support them! Highly recommend watching In Stars and Time! Play the game for yourself and then enjoy the talented line delivery dub/reading here (especially for the emotional portions of the narrative/dialogue). I just love VA’s guys they are all so cool and I kinda wish I could find myself a group of people like this. True friendships goals is being able to unapologetically live out your aroace monster loving ambitions and enjoy unapologetically sharing those hyperfixations with others. Oh and play videogames while doing so I guess
I'm going to say this very very gently, because as a volunteer I know more about the behind the scenes stuff regarding the OTW/Ao3: sometimes the things people post on social media are not the whole picture. Sometimes they are trying to rile you up (purposefully or not) to support them without thinking critically
Imagine how many people JUST LIKE HER are in ICU, TRAUMA, BIRTH AND DELIVERY, NICU, STEP-DOWN UNITS, PYSCH WARDS, ELDERLY CARE, OBGYN, CARDIOLOGY, POST OP CARE, etc…