In a new handbook, released by the top court, the SC has offered the correct terms that should be used instead: woman, woman, wife, street sexual harassment, intersex.
The 30-page Handbook on Combating Gender Stereotypes aims to free the judiciary and the legal community from the mechanical application of gender stereotypical language in judgments, orders, and court pleadings.
The purpose of the amendment of the Code was not legal, but a recognition of the humanity of the people it had previously referred to as paupers.