New Delhi: The Supreme Court has taken a dim view of a Patna high court’s order holding that an attempt to remove a woman’s salwar and physically molesting by pressing her chest are not an ‘attempt to rape’.Senior Advocate Shobha Gupta informed a bench of the Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V. Mohana of the order on July 15.LiveLaw reported that the CJI said that there was a lack of thorough research before delivering judgments and conveyed that the bench would pass a detailed order dealing with the Patna high court decision.The apex court also asked courts to strictly follow a report placed before it by the National Judicial Academy’s Expert Committee containing guidelines on judicial sensitivity in sexual offence cases. These guidelines will also be uploaded to the websites of the Supreme Court, high courts and district courts, it said.They will also be circulated to the National and all State Judicial Academies, as well as National Law Universities and law departments of other universities.“The Director of Prosecution and Director General of Police of all the States are also directed to issue necessary instructions to all police stations to follow the contents of the handbook while recording an FIR or filing a chargesheet,” the order stated, according to LiveLaw.The report noted that the Patna high court verdict was brought up by senior advocate Gupta during the hearing of the suo motu case on an equally strange Allahabad high court verdict. It said that grabbing the breasts of a minor girl, breaking the string of her pyjama and trying to drag her beneath a culvert would not come under the offence of ‘attempt to rape’.The order, which had caused outrage, said the acts would prima facie constitute the offence of ‘aggravated sexual assault’ under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, which carries a lesser punishment.NDTV reports that in the Patna high court order, Justice Purnendu Singh said that if a person removed a woman’s salwar and pressed her chest, the acts would amount to the offence of outraging a woman’s modesty and not ‘attempt to rape’, which carries a much higher punishment. The incident took place in 2008.The report says that a woman had visited a photo studio in Amarpur with her father when the studio owner bolted the door and tried to assault her. Her father rushed to her rescue and the accused fled.The man challenged his conviction under attempt to rape and wrongful confinement in the high court.