POCSO Act

On 21st September 2019, a 15-year-old minor Dalit girl was gang-raped by three men in Ghosia village of Kaushambi district near Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. The criminals had also filmed the act while the girl had been begging them for mercy in Allah's name.

The principal, headmaster and a woman cook have also been booked for ignoring the complaint of the victim's family.

Brajesh Thakur and 18 others were accused of sexually assaulting and torturing as many as 42 girls residing at the Muzaffarpur shelter home.

On April 15, 2013, convicts Manoj Shah and Pradeep Kumar abducted and brutally raped the child, nicknamed Gudiya by media, in east Delhi

Azmal Lashkar has been booked under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for rape and under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

Reports alleged that the husband-wife duo was running an online sex racket helping a gang that supplied children to paedophiles

The accused step-father allegedly had an ugly brawl with his wife following which he had threatened her of “dire consequences”.

The UP cabinet has already passed the order to set up these fast track courts

32-year-old man sentenced to 10 years rigorous imprisonment for raping a 7-year-old girl in 2014

The accused Abdul Hamid Bahadur Ansari reportedly lured the 6-year-old girl inside his shop on the pretext of offering chocolates and allegedly raped her.