The Bombay High Court has granted permission to an 11-year-old sexual assault survivor to terminate her 30-week pregnancy. A vacation bench, comprising Justices Sharmila Deshmukh and Jitendra Jain, ordered that the procedure... Read more »
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday has expressed dissatisfaction with the Maharashtra government’s failure to establish a Child Safety Committee, despite previous directives following the Badlapur school sexual assault incident. A division... Read more »
The Madras High Court has quashed a criminal case against a woman accused of killing her husband, who allegedly attempted to sexually assault their 21-year-old daughter while in a drunken state. Justice... Read more »
The Allahabad High Court has dismissed the bail plea of a temple priest (pujari) who was charged under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act) for allegedly engaging... Read more »
The National Human Rights Commission took suo motu notice of an alleged sexual assault involving a second-year postgraduate student from RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata. The NHRC expressed concern that if... Read more »
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday stated that a challenge to the election of Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) president Chirag Paswan from the Hajipur Lok Sabha seat in Bihar should be... Read more »
A Delhi Court has sentenced a man to 20 years of imprisonment for sexual assaulting a minor boy. Special Judge (POCSO) Preeti Pareva granted a compensation of Rs 20 Lakh for the... Read more »
A court in Mayurbhanj (Odisha) has sentenced a 17-year-old boy to ten years of imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl. Mayurbhanj district additional sessions judge, Satyanarayan Patra, also levied a fine... Read more »
A Kerala court sentenced a 48-year-old man to 14 years in prison for aggravated sexual assault on his 14-year-old daughter. R Rekha, a Thiruvananthapuram Fast Track Special Court Judge, sentenced the man... Read more »
Recently, the Punjab and Haryana High Court rendered a significant judgment, affirming that a wife’s fabrication of sexual assault accusations against her in-laws constitutes psychological abuse, warranting grounds for divorce as ruled... Read more »