• 'Nudity should not be linked to sex' : HC quashes POCSO case against a mother who let her kids paint her naked torso

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    'Nudity should not be linked to sex' : HC quashes POCSO case against a mother who let her kids paint her naked torso

    In June 2020, the mother shared videos on her social media channels showing her two small children, a 14-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl, drawing on her semi-nude body.

    Digital
    Desk:
    The
    Kerala High Court declared Monday that "nudity and obscenity are not
    always synonymous" as it dismissed a women's rights activist in a
    Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) case involving her two
    children, raising concerns about patriarchal prejudices about a woman's nude
    body.



    In his 28-page decision,
    Justice Kauser Edappagath stated, "It is incorrect to describe nudity as
    basically vulgar, even indecent or immoral... While the liberty of a male body
    is rarely called into question, the autonomy of women is constantly threatened
    by patriarchal structures... Because a naked female body is solely used for
    sensual purposes, female nudity is considered a taboo."



    color:#222222">The HC decision was based on a revision plea filed by the
    33-year-old women's rights activist, who was fighting a May 2022 Ernakulam
    POCSO court judgement refusing to dismiss her. In June 2020, the mother shared
    videos on her social media channels showing her two small children, a
    14-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl, drawing on her semi-nude body.



    color:#222222">The video provoked "massive outrage," prompting
    Ernakulam police to file an FIR against her for obscenity under a section of the
    Indian Penal Code (IPC) as well as several sections of the POCSO Act of 2012,
    the Information Technology Act of 2000, and the Juvenile Justice (Care and
    Protection of Children) Act of 2015.



    The activist had used
    the hashtag "Body Art and Politics" to share the "controversial"
    video.



    color:#222222">The judge ruled that painting on a person's naked upper body,
    whether a man or a woman, cannot be considered a sexually explicit act,
    particularly in the case at hand, because the message accompanying the video
    clearly stated that the body painting was done as a "artistic form of
    protest against sexualised portrayal of a woman's naked upper body."



    According to the judge,
    the social activist's film was intended to expose society's double standard and
    to teach her children that a naked body is "more than just a sexual
    object."



    color:#222222">"Here is a case in which a mother who tried to challenge
    patriarchal stereotypes and spread the message that there should be nothing
    sexual or offensive about the naked female body by exposing her children to her
    semi-naked body was saddled with criminal charges alleging that she exploited
    her own children for sexual gratification." What began as a body art
    project for a mother and her children with control of the narrative turned out
    to be a "criminal act," according to the judge.



    The judge ruled that the
    movie was a "innocent artistic expression" of women's physical
    autonomy and independence, which is at the heart of a woman's fundamental right
    to equality, privacy, and personal liberty.







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