Pocso Act
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How POCSO Act has fared in 10 years - an explainer
India | November 22, 2022 15:54 ISTPOCSO Act: An analysis of this decade-old act has found gaps in its implementation - such as increasing pendency of cases and a high rate of acquittals.
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POCSO and IPC prevail over personal laws: Karnataka High Court
India | October 31, 2022 11:44 ISTThe court was hearing a petition for bail by a 27-year old Muslim man whose wife was 17 years of age and had become pregnant.
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Allahabad High Court wants more women lawyers to represent survivors in POCSO cases
India | August 28, 2022 8:13 ISTThe Allahabad High Court took note of the fact that only a few women lawyers were appearing for rape survivors.
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Girls can marry without parents' consent after attaining puberty under Muslim Laws: Delhi High Court
India | August 24, 2022 12:37 ISTJustice Jasmeet Singh observed, "A girl on attaining puberty could marry without the consent of her parents under the Muslim laws and has the right to reside with her husband even when she is otherwise minor. The provisions of POCSO will not apply to the husband."
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Pocso not for teenage romances: Allahabad High Court
India | February 18, 2022 11:20 ISTThe court granted bail to a POCSO accused youth, who ran away with a 14- yr-old girl and got married with her in a temple. The youth, who was a minor then, remained in company with the girl for almost two years during which the girl gave birth to a child.
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Oral sex with minor not 'aggravated sexual assault' under POCSO, HC reduces jail term of man
India | November 23, 2021 23:29 ISTThe crime does not fall in the category of 'aggravated sexual assault' or sexual assault. It comes in the category of 'penetrative sexual assault' which is punishable under Section 4 of the POCSO Act, the court said.
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'Skin-to-skin' contact not necessary for sexual assault under POCSO: Supreme Court
India | November 18, 2021 11:33 ISTSupreme Court said that the most important ingredient of constituting sexual assault is sexual intent and not skin-to-skin with the child.
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Hathras rape case: Man sentenced to death for raping, killing teenager
India | September 24, 2021 16:33 ISTAdditional district and sessions judge (POCSO), Hathras court, Pratibha Saxena, termed it as an act which "shakes a person's soul". She found the man guilty and pronounced him to be "hanged till death".
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More trouble for Twitter as 2 fresh cases filed by Delhi, UP Police
India | June 29, 2021 20:01 ISTThe Delhi Police's Cyber Cell registered an FIR against Twitter Inc and Twitter Communication India Private Ltd under several serious sections of the POCSO Act.
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Holding girl's hands, unzipping pants 'no' sexual assault under POCSO: Bombay HC
India | January 28, 2021 15:03 ISTThe observation was made by a single bench of Justice Pushpa Ganediwala on January 15 while passing an order on an appeal filed by a 50-year-old man challenging a sessions court''s order convicting him for sexually assaulting and molesting a five-year-old girl.
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Skin to Skin contact: Supreme Court stays Bombay HC order acquitting man under POCSO
India | January 27, 2021 14:19 ISTOn January 19, the high court had said that groping a minor's breast without "skin to skin contact" cannot be termed as sexual assault as defined under the POCSO Act.
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UP: 15-year-old Dalit girl set ablaze by jilted lover in Ballia
Crime | November 08, 2020 9:58 ISTThe victim was admitted to a hospital in Ballia but as her condition worsened, she was shifted to Varanasi for advanced treatment.
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Two booked in 'girls rape case' in MP's Bhopal
News | July 13, 2020 11:12 ISTTwo people have booked in connection with the alleged rape case of girls, including minors, in Madhya Pradesh, police said on Sunday.
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Andhra Assembly passes 'Disha' Bill: Death penalty for rapists within 21 days | 6 things to know
India | December 13, 2019 18:43 ISTThe Andhra Pradesh Assembly on Friday passed the Andhra Pradesh Disha Bill 2019 also known as the Andhra Pradesh Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 2019 to award death sentence for offences of rape and gang rape and expediting verdict in trials of such cases within 21 days.
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Will write to CMs, CJs to complete rape and POCSO cases within 2 months, says Ravi Shankar Prasad
India | December 08, 2019 22:19 ISTNoting that incidents of rape and crimes against women are "unfortunate and highly condemnable", Prasad asserted that perpetrators of such "heinous" crimes will be punished expeditiously through the judicial process.
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'No mercy plea for child rapists': President Kovind calls for review of provision
India | December 06, 2019 16:18 ISTThere should be no provision of mercy pleas for child rapists, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Friday as he called on the Parliament to consider a review.
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Parliament approves bill providing death penalty for sexual assault against children
India | August 01, 2019 20:48 ISTPiloting the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill, 2019, Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani said it aims at making offences against children gender-neutral.
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In one of fastest POCSO verdicts, Kolkata court sentences man to life for raping, impregnating teen
India | August 01, 2019 19:51 ISTSealdah Additional Sessions Judge Jimut Bahan Biswas found Biswajit Dey guilty of rape of the 17-year-old girl and sentenced him to "undergo rigorous imprisonment for life for the offence punishable under Section 6 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offence (POCSO) Act, 2012".
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Supreme Court: Need for more forensic labs to expedite POCSO cases
India | July 26, 2019 7:26 ISTA bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi directed the directors and the authorities concerned of every state forensic laboratory to ensure that the existing and available FSLs function in an effective manner in analysing samples collected under the POCSO Act.
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'Please be decent': Smriti Irani shows a BJP lawmaker some light in Rajya Sabha
India | July 25, 2019 11:13 ISTBJP lawmaker Harnath Singh Yadav, on Wednesday, blamed the content on TV and social media for the rise in sexual offenders during the debate in Rajya Sabha.
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