Despite the incident occurring on the mentioned date, a formal complaint was filed four days later due to the victim's fear of threats from the accused. The police, recognizing the victim as a Dalit, invoked provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
Allahabad High Court on POCSO Act: POCSO was formulated to protect children under the age of 18 years from sexual exploitation. Nowadays, more often than not, it has become a tool for their exploitation. This Act was never meant to criminalise consensual romantic relationships between adolescents.
The Law Commission has submitted its report on the age of consent under the POCSO Act to the Law Ministry in which it has suggested that amendments are needed in the legislation to remedy the situation in cases involving tacit approval, though not consent in law, on the part of children.
Asaram is in jail following his conviction on April 25, 2018 in teenager sexual assault case who was a student of his ashram in Rajasthan. His bail has been denied a number of times by the court.
On June 19, the victim, Mota Naveen, was beaten and urinated upon by Mannam Ramanjaneyulu and eight additional individuals.
Karnataka news: According to Chikkanayakanahalli police, HS Ravi, the Mathematics teacher of Godekere Government school, used to give heavy homework to the students. If they failed to complete the work, he tortured them in classroom.
There was one more accused but he died during the trial of the case registered under Indian Penal Code sections 376D (gangrape) and 506 (criminal intimidation), and under the POCSO Act.
The observation of the court is important as it widened the dimension of the POCSO Act and strengthen the law to protest minors.
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The 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.
The Allahabad High Court took note of the fact that only a few women lawyers were appearing for rape survivors.
Justice 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."
The 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.
The 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.
Supreme Court said that the most important ingredient of constituting sexual assault is sexual intent and not skin-to-skin with the child.
Additional 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".
The 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.
The 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.
On 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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