Kerala High Court refused to exclude Muslim marriages from POCSO Act, calls physical relationship with minor an offence irrespective of validity of marriage
The Court has impleaded PFI State General Secretary A Abdul Sathar as an additional respondent in the case and has directed the State government to file a report. The matter will be taken up next on September 29.
Justice PV Kunhikrishnan while hearing the case stated that the state of Kerala is known as 'God's own country' and that it is full of religious places. "We are exhausted with religious places and prayer halls and we are not in a position to allow any new religious places and prayer halls except in the rarest of rare cases", the judgement read.