Ramkripal S/O Shyamlal Charmakar vs State Of Madhya Pradesh on 19 March, 2007
assault or use of criminal force
to a woman to outrage her modesty. The essential
ingredients of offence under Section 354 IPC are:
(a) That ... would be an outrage to the
modesty of a woman; and knowledge, that modesty is
likely to be outraged, is sufficient to constitute the offence