Refusing to deal with the menace of people urinating in public, the Delhi High Court has said it cannot ensure that when a man walks out of his house, the zip of his pants is "locked".
A bench of justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Deepa Sharma made the observation while disposing of a plea seeking removal of pictures of deities from the walls of a housing complex here.
The pictures were put up to discourage people from urinating on the walls of the housing complex' compound, the court noted and added that despite this those engaged in such activites have not been dissuaded.
"Now, nobody can prevent a person from affixing photographs of deities on the walls of his house or on the walls of a Group Housing Complex. The direction sought to be issued against the residents that photographs of Gods be directed to be removed cannot be issued by us.
"The menace of urinating in public has to be solved elsewhere. Surely, this court cannot make a man, who walks out of his house, to keep his zip locked (sic)," the court said.
The court in its order said petitioner Manoj Sharma had filed pictures showing that residents of buildings were "fed up with the Indian habit of relieving the pressure on the bladder by unzipping and peeing on the first wall seen by the person" and had affixed photographs of deities on the walls to curtail or prohibit such conduct.
"The hope would be that man, the greatest creation of the infinite artist, would not bare his privies in front of his lord and would not urinate on the road.
"In spite thereof, the photographs evidence that the pressure on the bladder is blatantly relieved by virtually peeing on the photographs of one's God," the court observed.
