Following its February 2025 suo motu intervention against an Allahabad High Court ruling that grabbing a minor's breasts and tearing clothing wasn't "attempt to rape" but mere aggravated sexual assault, the Supreme Court (CJI Surya Kant, Justices Bagchi and Mohana) learned a Patna High Court order had repeated near-identical regressive reasoning. The Bench criticized High Courts for inadequate research before contradicting settled SC positions, and stressed offensive local-dialect phrasing often masks victims' trauma. It approved a National Judicial Academy handbook (headed by Justice Aniruddha Bose) on judicial sensitivity in sexual-offence cases, directing all courts, State DGPs, and prosecution directors to follow it, and ordering its circulation to judicial academies and NLUs for training.