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NEW DELHI, JAN. 11. The Supreme Court today ruled that no case could be transferred from a court to another on the ground that a lady judge would find it ``embarrassing'' to hear a case pertaining to sexual offences. A Bench, comprising Justice N. Santosh Hegde and Justice S.B. Sinha, reversed an order of the Madras High Court, and said that judges heard and decided cases of any type irrespective of their gender, as it was their duty. The case pertained to an offence registered by the Tamil Nadu police against five persons who were charged with having procured young men and women, preparing pornographic videos and CDs of them and selling them to pornographic websites. When the question of examination of the CDs came up before the trial court in Chennai, which was presided over by a lady officer, the accused moved the High Court saying the examination of the CDs, the contents of which were such, would embarrass the lady judge and requested for transfer of the case to a court presided over by a male judge.
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