The Madras high court quashed sexual harassment charges against a 20-year-old man, stating that hugging and kissing between lovers is natural and not a crime. The court acknowledged the three-year relationship and deemed the woman’s allegations, made after the man refused marriage, insufficient to constitute sexual harassment under Section 354-A(1)(i) of the IPC.
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