POCSO Act

In Dumka incident of Jharkhand, the State Child Welfare Committee demanded the Protection of Children Against Sexual Offence (POCSO) act on the accused, a youth named Shah Rukh. The committee said, the girl who was burnt alive for rejecting love proposal was a minor, as per her documents of class X. Notably, in the police FIR, the girl was claimed to be an adult, hence only IPC sections were registered.

A special court in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh convicted a man for alleged rape and sexual assault on a minor in 2015. The Special Judge for the POCSO court Sangeeta Kumar pronounced 10 years of rigorous imprisonment on the convict Shanu Ali and imposed Rs 70,000 fine, which will be handed over to the survivor. Notably, seven years ago, the victim's father registered an FIR, which was under trial since 2015,

In Odisha, a Fast Track Court Judge-cum-Additional District Judge Bhaskar Chandra Sahu, gave 10-year rigorous imprisonment (RI) to a tribal man for kidnapping a 17-year-old girl and repeatedly raping her for three-years. On July 13 verdict, the Kandhamal district judge also imposed Rs 2 lakh fine. If the accused fail to pay the fine, he needs to spend an additional 2-years in jail in the 2019 rape and kidnapping case.

Popular Malayalam actor Sreejith Ravi has been arrested in a Protection of Children from Sexual Offence (POCSO) case. On July 4, the parents of two minors registered an FIR against an unidentified man, who allegedly entered a park and flashed to children. After a CCTV footage examination, the police identified the accused to be actor Ravi and arrested him. Furthermore, this is the second such POCSO case… read-more

In a rape case, the Mathura Police arrested two youths for raping a minor girl(13), filming the act and sharing on online platforms. Notably, in early June, a case was registered against four accused, of which two have been arrested, two are absconding. Victim's father registered the FIR, after his daughter was raped by four, of which two arrested are Pramod and Rahul. The investigation to nab remaining is underway.