Cross massage

Seeking to put an end to police raids and searches on health spas that also offer "cross massage" -- the massage done by persons belonging to the opposite sex -- the Madras high court has ruled that the city police do not have any legal right to interfere with such activities. Justice K Chandru, placing health spas virtually beyond the reach of the city police, pointed out that as on date the regulatory provisions of the Madras City Police Act 1888 talked only about licensing procedures for hotels and lodges, and there was no reference to spa "with massages done by persons belonging to other sex." The judge said: "Police as on date has no legal right to prevent a health spa being operated by any citizen of this country, even if it (massage) is done by persons belonging to the opposite sex. As pointed out by the Supreme Court, majoritarian impulses rooted in moralistic tradition cannot impinge upon individual autonomy... In the absence of a law, the only argument of the state was based upon moral and ethical grounds."

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