The Supreme Court faces a plea to lower the age of consent. Advocate Indira Jaising argues current laws criminalize adolescent relationship...

The Supreme Court urges the Government of India to rethink the Pocso Act's application to consensual adolescent relationships. The court su...

The Kerala High Court dismissed a case against six Asianet journalists. The case was filed under the POCSO Act. Allegations included reveal...

Maharashtra faces a growing crisis with over 42,000 pending POCSO cases due to insufficient dedicated courts. Despite 30 sanctioned special...

The Noida administration issued an advisory to schools following two sexual assault incidents. The advisory mandates a committee for handli...

Union Women and Child Development Minister Annapurna Devi has criticized the West Bengal government for not implementing fast-track courts ...

Child rape cases, covering various forms of penetrative assaults, have increased by 96% from 2016 to 2022, according to an analysis of NCRB...

The Law Commission in India has recommended against changing the age of consent under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCS...

This comes after Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud asked lawmakers on Saturday to address the “growing concern” on the criminalisation ...

According to the report, registered crimes of theft and chain snatching have increased by 827 per cent and 552 per cent respectively from 2...

On September 10, the kin of a 16-year old in Pilibhit's Madhotanda town alleged that their daughter was raped by two youths, Rajvir and Tar...

According to the details shared with the chief justices of the high courts, more than 9.33 lakh cases are pending in the fast-track courts ...

The presumption that incarcerating young men will prevent sexual offences against children is at odds with the realities of child sexual ab...

The court asked the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government to try and ensure that the issue is resolved by the next date of hearing on March 24.

At present, there are no courts set up exclusively for dealing with POCSO (protection of children from sexual offences) cases.

A number of activists argue that the introduction of the death penalty would simply lead to a decrease in the already poor conviction rates...

A special court, dealing with cases related to violence and sexual harassment against children and women, will be opened here tomorrow.