POCSO

Bombay HC grants bail to man accused of raping minor on grounds that “sexual relationship between the two was out of a love affair and not lust”

The court said, "The applicant is also of a tender age of 26 years, and they come together out of a love affair. It seems that the alleged incident of…

Writing such judgments is absolutely wrong: Supreme Court criticises Calcutta HC judges after they advised adolescent girls to ‘control sexual urges’

The Supreme Court deemed the observations by the Calcutta High Court as 'problematic' and also questioned the legal principles involved in the judgment.

Rahul Gandhi agrees to delete tweet revealing the identity of minor victim of alleged rape and murder after Delhi HC said it will pass an order

Rahul Gandhi told the DelhiHC that he will delete a 2021 tweet where he had revealed the identity of a 9-year-old Dalit girl who was allegedly raped and murdered

Kerala court acquits POCSO-accused DYFI worker in rape and murder case of a 6-year-old girl, ‘where is the justice’, asks family as they break down

The court said that the prosecution failed to prove the case against the accused and was based solely on circumstantial evidence which could not be established to prove the accused…

Bitten by dog, stripped naked, beaten with iron rod, attacked with acid: 13-year-old maid tortured for months by her employers in Gurugram

The incident took place in sector 57 of Gurugram. the case is booked in the women's police station in sector 51. The 3 accused have been booked under Section 10…

UP: Hafiz Irfan who raped an 8-year-old in a madrasa sentenced to life imprisonment by a special POCSO court, verdict in 40 days of crime

While pronouncing the judgment, the judge said that due to such crimes, society will never be able to send girls to such institutions for education.

Kerala: POCSO court finds Ashfaq Alam guilty in Aluva rape and murder of a 5-year-old girl from Bihar, conviction in 99 days after crime

The body of the minor victim was found dumped in a sack in a marshy area behind a local market in the nearby Aluva area on 29th July. It was…

Uttar Pradesh: 60-year-old Sher Mohammad of Bareilly commits suicide after getting caught raping a 5-year-old girl

When the 5-year-old girl was playing outside her home, she was lured by the accused Sher Mohammad to his residence.

West Bengal: Asibur Rahman abducts a minor Hindu girl, forces her to convert to Islam, family alleges police apathy due to TMC connections of accused

The young Hindu girl lived in a village which is under the jurisdiction of Pingla Police Station in the Paschim Medinipur region. She went missing on June 18 in Namchi,…

Uttar Pradesh: Principal Rizwan Ahmed arrested for stripping a class 5 student and sexually exploiting her inside a school in Ayodhya

Principal Rizwan Ahmed then forced the minor victim to take off her clothes and started checking her private parts. He also threatened the minor schoolgirl not to tell anyone about…