POCSO Act

The Special Court held that the appellant had committed an offence under Sections 354, 363 and 342 of the IPC as well as under Section 8 of the Act.

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The Mumbai chicken seller was convicted of undressing a five-year-old boy, touching his private parts and masturbating on him.

Hearing a criminal appeal against the conviction and sentence awarded to a 50-year-old man for molesting a five-year-old girl, Justice Ganediwala observed that the case comes under the gambit of 'sexual harassment' and not 'sexual assault'.

The Bombay High Court in a recent verdict has ruled that groping without skin-to-skin contact is not sexual assault.

The woman was arrested by the police under POCSO Act. She has been sent to judicial custody.

Kerala police arrested and charged them under the POCSO Act and the Prevention of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Violence Act

Abdul Lateef, a 54-year-old man from Kerala, has been held for marrying a 16-year-old girl in Hyderabad.

A case of Grooming Jihad has emerged from Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh where 19-year-old Saqib concealed his religious identity to entice a 14-year-old Dalit girl into forced religious conversion.

Shahid had lured the same girl away in March as well after which he was jailed but sections of POCSO were not invoked.