Jharkhand Child Welfare Committee Demands POCSO Act Against Accused: Dumka Incident

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.