Doon Valley Public School, Nalagarh, hosted an awareness session on the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) ...
1. Karnataka HC said POCSO is gender-neutral, and women can also be prosecuted for offences under the law. 2. Rejecting the defence argument that aggravated sexual assault provisions under POCSO could ...
Justice Lali noted that while the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act covers male victims under 18, there is no ...
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From child protection to ‘moral policing’ tool: How POCSO Act is leaving courts conflicted
New Delhi: Two years ago, a young woman in a rumpled saree and unkempt hair showed up at the Calcutta High Court and stood in a corner of one of the courtrooms with a baby in her arms. She reached the ...
The Karnataka High Court dismissed a petition to quash a POCSO sexual assault case The case involves a 52-year-old woman accused of assaulting a 13-year-old boy in 2020 Delay in filing the complaint ...
KRISHNAGIRI: With many teaching and non-teaching staff still unaware of the Pocso Act, the School Education Department will conduct training programmes for nearly 90,000 teachers across the state, ...
The West Bengal Assembly on Tuesday passed the 'Aparajita Woman and Child Bill (West Bengal Criminal Laws and Amendment) 2024', which includes provisions for the death penalty for those convicted of ...
The Supreme Court of India has observed that love is not a crime, emphasizing that teenage romantic relationships should not be criminalized under the POCSO Act. Justices Nagarathna and Mahadevan ...
MUMBAI: Police have filed a chargesheet against the former teacher of a well-known city school who allegedly sexually assaulted a class 11 student on multiple occasions with help from her accomplice, ...
MADURAI: Observing that the Pocso Act does not prohibit adults from lodging a complaint for the offences committed against them when they were minors, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court ...
Shillong: Two offenders, found guilty under relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, have been sentenced to prison terms by a Pocso court in the East Jaintia ...
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