A POCSO court in Odisha has sentenced a 45-year-old man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for the rape of a minor girl in 2014. Mayurbhanj district POCSO court judge Sumita Jena... Read more »
A special POCSO court in Arunachal Pradesh has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for sexual assaulting and impregnating his minor stepdaughter. The court also imposed a 20-year prison term for the... Read more »
Uttar Pradesh’s Chitrakoot court has recently sentenced a man to 10 years of imprisonment for raping a 17-year-old girl in 2017. Special Public Prosecutor, Tej Pratap Singh, stated the court of Additional... Read more »
The Delhi High Court on Thursday granted the city government 3 weeks to formulate the standard operating procedure to be followed in cases of sexual assault of children. A bench headed by... Read more »
The Kaushambi POCSO court in Uttar Pradesh has convicted four individuals, including a woman, in connection with a 2018 gang-rape case involving a minor Dalit girl. The court sentenced all the convict... Read more »
Delhi High Court has passed an order to cancel an FIR registered under the POCSO Act on the basis of mutual consent of victim and accused both. While quashing FIR High Court... Read more »
The Bundi district court in Rajasthan has sentenced a man and a woman to 20 years of imprisonment each for the abduction and rape of a minor that occurred more than three... Read more »
A special POCSO court in Mumbai has recently acquitted a 60-year-old man accused of raping his granddaughter as it didn’t find the victim’s testimony “trustworthy”. Special Judge Kalpna Patil, presiding over the... Read more »
A special POCSO court in Indore has sentenced 20-year-old man to 20 years of imprisonment of raping a minor and pressurising her to convert her religion. Special Judge (POCSO), Surekha Mishra, presiding... Read more »
A POCSO court in Bahraich (UP) sentenced a man to 23 years in prison for raping a 12-year-old girl and imposed a fine of over Rs one lakh. Special Additional Sessions Judge... Read more »