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When Conviction Is Under Both POCSO Act & IPC, Offender Liable To Be Sentenced Under Provision Prescribing Higher Punishment : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court clarified that when a person is convicted for an offence under both the Protection of Children from Sexual ...
Migrant worker booked under POCSO Act for sexual assault of minor in Erode district
A 22-year-old migrant worker from Bihar has been booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor in Erode district.
Touching minor’s lips is not ‘aggravated sexual assault’ under Pocso Act
Delhi High Court has held that, without sexual advances, touching and pressing a minor girl's lips and lying down next to her ...
Pressing a minor girl's lips and sleeping next to her without sexually motivated advances not a POCSO offence: HC
The Delhi High Court ruled that touching a minor girl's lips and sleeping next to her without sexually motivated intent does ...
No POCSO Charge Without Sexual Intent In Touching Minor’s Lips, Sleeping Beside Her: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has said in the absence of sexually motivated advances, touching and pressing minor girl's lips and ...
Ram Jagadeesh interview: The drama in ‘Court’ concerns the POCSO Act
Court is set in 2013 in Visakhapatnam, Ram’s hometown, a year after the POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) ...
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Touching lips and sleeping next to minor falls short of POCSO offence, rules Delhi HC
While these acts may violate the girl's dignity and outrage her modesty, they fall short of the "overt or inferred sexual ...
Chembur School POCSO Case: Accused Reinstated 3 Months After FIR, No Action Taken
Mumbai: Five months after an FIR under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act was registered, no action ...
No relief to news channel that revealed Pocso victim’s identity
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has refused to quash a case registered against Tamil news channel for revealing the identity ...
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Pressing, touching minor’s lips without sexual advances not POCSO offence: Delhi HC
The Delhi High Court has said in the absence of sexually motivated advances, touching and pressing minor girl's lips and sleeping next to her cannot attract prosecution for "aggravated sexual assault' ...
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Sonipat court grants ₹1 lakh interim compensation to POCSO survivor for education
A trial court in Sonipat, Haryana recently awarded interim compensation of ₹1 lakh to the 17-year-old survivor in a case ...
Pocso: Absconding headmaster arrested
Mysuru: A week after a govt higher primary school headmaster in Mysuru absconded after a case was registered against him ...