Taapsee Pannu and Sona Mohapatra recently took to their Twitter handle to react to the news of a Supreme Court judge asking a rape accused if he will marry the survivor.

Taking to her Twitter handle, Taapsee wrote, ‘Did someone ask the girl this question? If she wants to marry her rapist!!!??? Is that a question!!!??? This is the solution or a punishment? Plain simple DISGUST.’

Check out the Tweet here:

Did someone ask the girl this question ? If she wants to marry her rapist !!!??? Is that a question !!!??? This is… https://t.co/6bDUSxmNH8

— taapsee pannu (@taapsee) 1614604877000

Singer Sona Mohapatra also commented on the news article and said, ‘This is sickening & deeply disturbing. A rapist marrying his victim has been a gory & repulsive bollywood solution in the past, how can a Supreme Court of #India fall to these levels?’

When the hearing commenced, the bench, also comprising Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian, asked the accused “Are you willing to marry her?” If you are willing to marry her then we can consider it, otherwise you will go to jail,” observed the bench adding “We are not forcing you to marry.”

The apex court later granted the accused protection from arrest for four weeks.

According to a report, when the girl turned 18 in June 2018, the petitioner’s mother refused for the marriage after which a complaint was lodged.