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Now, Mumbai cops can't harass couples using Sec 110 of Bombay Police Act
Updated On: 25 November, 2015 06:41 AM IST | | Saurabh Vaktania
<p>Top cops have decided they will no longer use the draconian Section 110 under the Bombay Police Act, notoriously used in the past to threaten couples with the charge of public indecency</p>

This could very well be the end of moral policing in the city — Mumbai Police, who had recently come under a hail of criticism for harassing citizens with the dreaded Section 110 (public indecency) of the Bombay Police Act, 1951, have decided they will no longer take action against anyone under that provision.

The law has been used to target people for as little as hugging in public. File pic for representation
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