Chhattisgarh High Court refuses to cancel sexual harassment case, rejects man’s ‘spite’ claim

4 min readNew DelhiJul 29, 2026 02:00 PM IST The woman alleged that the court employee trespassed into her house and outraged her modesty. (AI-generated image)The Chhattisgarh High Court has refused to set aside a criminal case against a court employee accused of sexual harassment and house trespass, holding that the allegations of false implication and delay in lodging the FIR must be examined during the trial. A bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Ravindra Kumar Agarwal observed that at the stage of considering the plea, the court cannot conduct a detailed examination of the evidence or determine the truthfulness of the woman’s allegations.“The mere existence of a defence or a rival version of the incident cannot constitute a ground for quashing the criminal proceedings when