“We have grave doubts about the expediency of transplanting western experience in our country. Social conditions are different and so also the general intellectual level.”

 – Sikri CJI, Palekar, Dua, Beg and Ray JJ, Jagmohan Singh v. State of U.P., (1973) 1 SCC 20.

This spelled disaster in Koushal, (2014) 1 SCC 1. The grave doubts shall return to haunt the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India.

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1960s, High Court of Gujarat [AIR 1968 GUJ 252]: “orifice of the mouth is not, according to nature, meant for sexual or carnal intercourse.”

Hon’ble Judges G.S. Singhvi and S.J. Mukhopadhaya have had stints at High Court of Gujarat.

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The Koushal Bench was ‘apprehensive’ of how the Court would rule in a case of proved consensual intercourse between adults and ultimately looked to the Parliament for guidance. The Parliament had not thought it proper to delete the provision.

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Cannot a law abiding woman give herself up to a police, stating that her eagerness for obedience of the law was eclipsed once or twice upon a time by her desire for sexual intercourse of an unfriendly nature?

That would work better than the Present Curatives, Real Sedatives.