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Gurugram: One Salman arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl after spiking her cold drink, both work at same factory
Police stated that it has been alleged that the girl was raped by one Salman. Both the complainant and the accused knew each other. They both work in the same factory.
Tamil Nadu Pastor sexually harassed a minor for five years, arrested under POCSO Act
As the victim was sexually abused since she was a minor, Joshua was booked under the POCSO Act. On learning about the Police complaint, pastor Joshua tried to flee the area but was arrested by the Police.
Kerala: Fake antique dealer Monson Mavunkal gets life imprisonment for sexual assault on a minor girl
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"The Kochi special POCSO court sentenced Monson Mavunkal to life imprisonment until the remainder of his natural life in two sections under the IPC. Sections 376(2)(n) and 376(2)(f)," said the prosecutor.
After wrestlers claim no FIR taken back, reports emerge of minor withdrawing statement against WFI chief, Delhi police questions Brij Bhushan’s staff
Minor wrestler reportedly withrawn statement against WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh after wrestlers claimed no complaint taken back
Kerala HC quashes case against Rehana Fathima, who had tried to desecrate Sabarimala, over publishing video of her children painting on her topless body
Rehana Fathima was booked under POCSO Act after she uploaded a video of her children painting her half naked body, Kerala HC has quashed the case
Aligarh: Mohammad Hassan sentenced to 20 years in jail under POCSO Act for raping his adopted minor daughter
Reportedly, Mohammad Hasan, a Quarsi resident claimed to have adopted a three-year-old Hindu girl from a brick kiln in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad where he used to work roughly eight years ago.
‘Can’t punish minors in romantic consensual relation using POCSO’: Bombay HC grants bail to 25-year-old Imran Shaikh accused of raping a minor in 2020
Bombay High Court said, "The object of POCSO act is certainly not to punish minors in a romantic or consensual relationship and brand them as criminals."
Delhi: School van driver Mohammad Azhar arrested for molesting a 6-year-old girl for over a year in the vehicle
The victim’s mother got to know about the crime after the girl said that she is having pain in her private parts and refused to get into the school van.
Kolkata: Special POCSO Court awards life sentence to Mohammed Mofizuddin and Abhishek Roy for raping a 4-year-old girl
The complaint under POCSO was made by the child's parents on November 30, 2017, alleging that their daughter was led into the washroom by two men—one of whom was known to the children as "Chocolate Kaku"—and then sexually assaulted.
Gurugram: Class 8 girl abducted and gang-raped, video reaches father via social media, police starts probe
A case under POCSO Act has been registered based on complaint of the victim's father.
