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The movie is all about the strength, dignity and respect for women. It not only talks about
women empowerment but the circumstances the women goes through in the society and
how women needs to be treated. The film is been carved around an incident where three
three girls Minal Arora, Falak Ali and Andrea who are independent living by themselves in
an apartment are involved in and how society legal aspects looks at the incident and
comment on it.

Plot Summery

A group of agitated young men rushes an injured friend to hospital. Three young women
return quietly to their apartment trying to subdue with silence an act of violence
committed by them. Minal finally tries to ease the situation by declaring that she hit
Rajveer on the head with a bottle in self-defence. Rajveer and friend are now in the mood
for revenge. They abduct Minal and molest her. Minal and a colleague approach the police
to file an FIR against Rajveer and friends. But the police do not entertain them as Rajveer
is the nephew of a powerful politician. Moving ahead Rajveer and his friends lodge an FIR
against Minal accusing her of prostitution and attempt to murder.

Legal Angle

Minal is charged under Sections 320 and 324 contain the definition of grievous hurts the
following kinds of hurts only are designated as “grievous”:

Emasculation

Permanent privation of the sight of either eye

Permanent privation of the hearing of either ear

Privation of any member or any

Permanent disfiguration of the head or face

Fracture or dislocation of bone or tooth

Destruction or permanent impairing of the powers of any member or joint.

Any hurts which endangers life or which causes the sufferer to be during the space of
twenty days of severe bodily pain, or unable to follow his ordinary pursuits

Any she was also charged under section 307 Attempt to murder.—Whoever does any act
with such intention or knowledge, and under such circumstances that, if he by that act
caused death, he would be guilty of murder, shall be punished with imprisonment of either
description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine; and if
hurt is caused to any person by such act, the offender shall be liable either to
1[imprisonment for life], or to such punishment as is hereinbefore mentioned. Attempts by
life convicts.—2[When any person offending under this section is under sentence of
1[imprisonment for life], he may, if hurt is caused, be punished with death.]
When Minal is charged under these Sections her lawyer counters that instead of Minal,
Rajveer should be the one who should be charged under Sections 354, 340 and 503 to be
read with 506 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, which correspond to:

Section 354 : Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty.
Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any woman, intending to outrage or knowing it
to be likely that he will thereby outrage her modesty, shall be punished with impris onment
of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.

Section 340 : Wrongful Confinement - When, upon an application made to it in this behalf or
otherwise, any Court is of opinion that it is expedient in the interests of justice that an
inquiry should be made into any offence referred to in clause (b) of sub- section (1) of
section 195, which appears to have been committed in or in relation to a proceeding in that
Court or, as the case may be, in respect of a document produced or given in evidence in a
proceeding in that Court, such Court may, after such preliminary inquiry, if any, as it thinks
necessary,-

(a) record a finding to that effect;

(b) make a complaint thereof in writing;

(c) send it to a Magistrate of the first class having jurisdiction;

(d) take sufficient security for the appearance of the accused before such Magistrate, or if
the alleged offence is non- bailable and the Court thinks it necessary so to do, send the
accused in custody to such Magistrate; and

(e) bind over any person to appear and give evidence before such Magistrate.

Section 503 : Criminal Intimidation - Whoever threatens another with any injury to his
person, reputation or property, or to the person or reputation of any one in whom that
person is interested, with intent to cause alarm to that person, or to cause that person to
do any act which he is not legally bound to do, or to omit to do any act which that
person ...

Section 506 : Punishment for Criminal Intimidation - Whoever commits, the offence of
criminal intimidation shall be punished with imprison ment of either description for a term
which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both; If threat be to cause death or
grievous hurt, etc.—And if the threat be to cause death or grievous hurt, or to cause the
destruction of any property by fire, or to cause an offence punishable with death or
1[imprisonment for life], or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years,
or to impute, unchastity to a woman, shall be punished with imprison ment of either
description for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both.
Rajveer had been found guilty of committing all these offences, unlike Minal who acted in
self defense.

The End