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Supreme Court refuses to interfere with anticipatory bail to Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati in POCSO case- Varanasi shocker: Mother sells 12-year-old girl for Rs 16,000 and 10 saris; she was raped multiple times, forced to work as house help
- Gujarat shocker: Man 'allows' landlord, aide to rape his wife, 13-year-old daughter as he could not pay Rs 2000 rent
- Unnao rape case: SC sets aside order suspending Sengar's life term, asks HC to decide plea afreshThe Supreme Court has overturned a Delhi High Court decision that suspended the life sentence of former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar. The c...15 May, 2026, 04.00 PM IST
- Panchkula horror: Father sexually abused daughter for 11 years, teen got pregnant in Class 9A teenage girl in Panchkula has accused her father of sexually abusing her for over a decade, with assaults beginning at age seven. The 18-...15 May, 2026, 12.04 PM IST
- Delhi HC order suspending Kuldeep Singh Sengar's jail term stayed by the Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court has halted the release of expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar. This follows a Delhi High Court order granting him ba...30 Dec, 2025, 12.28 PM IST
- Man gets imprisoned 'till the last day of his natural life' for raping 3-year-old child, 8 years onA Greater Noida court sentenced a former lifeguard to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting a three-year-old student in 2018. The court...13 Aug, 2025, 01.18 PM IST
- SC directs Centre to set up special POCSO courts on priority basisThe Supreme Court has instructed the Centre to urgently establish dedicated POCSO courts to handle cases of sexual offenses against childre...15 May, 2025, 03.25 PM IST
- POSCO court hands death sentence to former school warden in Arunachal Pradesh for assaulting 21 childrenA POCSO court in Arunachal Pradesh sentenced a former school warden to death for sexually assaulting 21 children. The verdict also convicte...26 Sep, 2024, 08.55 PM IST
- Beware if you're watching this porn as it may put you in jail for up to 7 yearsThe Supreme Court of India has ruled that possessing child pornographic material, even without dissemination, is a criminal offence. The co...24 Sep, 2024, 11.32 AM IST
- Watching child porn can be POCSO offence if intention is to share or profit: SCThe Supreme Court has urged Parliament to amend the POCSO Act, replacing 'child pornography' with 'child sexual exploitative and abuse mate...23 Sep, 2024, 11.43 PM IST
- Sexual exploitation of minors plagued societies worldwide, matter of serious concern in India: SCThe Supreme Court of India has highlighted the critical issue of child sexual exploitation and the necessity of the POCSO Act, 2012. The co...23 Sep, 2024, 06.55 PM IST
- Age of consent: NCPCR likely to advise govt against accepting Law Commission recommendationsThe National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) is expected to advise the government against accepting the Law Commission's ...04 Oct, 2023, 04.55 PM IST
- Not advisable to tinker with existing age of consent under POCSO Act: Law Commission to govtThe Law Commission in India has recommended against changing the age of consent under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCS...29 Sep, 2023, 06.33 PM IST
- Amend Pocso, decriminalise consensual sex of those above 16: Unicef ReportThis comes after Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud asked lawmakers on Saturday to address the “growing concern” on the criminalisation ...13 Dec, 2022, 12.16 AM IST
- Consider ground realities, rethink age of consent in POCSO Act, says HC to Law CommissionIn the judgement passed on November 5, a division bench of Justices Suraj Govindaraj and G Basavaraja said, "Having come across several cas...06 Nov, 2022, 12.00 PM IST
- Personal laws need to be reviewed, harmonised with landmark court rulingsThe Cabinet's recent proposal to raise the minimum age of marriage for women to 21 years has focussed attention on the need to review the m...25 Dec, 2021, 11.43 PM IST
- View: Trying young offenders as adults won’t fix India’s child sexual abuse problemThe presumption that incarcerating young men will prevent sexual offences against children is at odds with the realities of child sexual ab...28 Mar, 2021, 10.49 AM IST
- Unnao rape case: Court frames fresh charges against MLA Kuldeep SengarWith the charges being modified, the offences now entail a minimum punishment of 10 years unlike under section 3 of the Act, where it was s...14 Aug, 2019, 08.02 PM IST
- Government draws SC fire for legitimising rapeThe SC found no material difference between the definition of rape under Section 375 of the IPC and penetrative sexual assault in terms of ...12 Oct, 2017, 06.54 AM IST
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