A mother has divine powers to understand child's feelings: HC

Observing that the mother has ‘divine powers’ to understand the feeling of her child without being conveyed by words, the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court recently upheld the conviction of a 20-year-old man for attempting to rape a minor girl. The HC, however, commuted his sentence after taking into account the fact that he was a ‘child in conflict with law’ at the time of the offence.

A single-judge bench of Justice Vibha Kankanwadi said, "The relationship of a mother and a daughter would always be of confidence and the mother would be having her own skill to extract about the things that have happened with her child."

The strong observations were made while dealing with an appeal filed by the juvenile convict, who sought to quash his conviction under charges of rape and the stringent POSCO law. To buttress his case, the convict argued before the trial court that the victim did not specify as to what exactly happened with her and emphasised on her words, wherein she had said that ‘something happened and she started crying in pain.’