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Kerala: Mother and her friend sentenced to 180 years for repeatedly abusing 12-year-old daughter; Court orders multi-lakh fineA shocking child abuse case saw a woman and her male partner sentenced to 180 years rigorous imprisonment each. They were found guilty of r...05 Nov, 2025, 01.41 PM IST- Agra man sentenced to 20 years prison for raping his minor nieceIn Agra, a 25-year-old man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison by a special Pocso court for raping his seven-year-old niece in January...05 Sep, 2025, 11.54 AM 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
- Saying 'I love you' not molestation or sexual offence: High Court acquits man convicted in case involving a teenagerThe Bombay High Court overturned a man's conviction for molestation and violating the POCSO Act, stating that expressing "I love you" alone...01 Jul, 2025, 04.24 PM IST
- Kolkata Court sentences man to death for rape and attempted murder of infantA special Pocso court in Kolkata sentenced Rajiv Ghosh to death for the brutal rape and attempted murder of a seven-month-old girl. Describ...18 Feb, 2025, 09.32 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
- 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
- Controversial antiques dealer Monson Mavunkal gets life imprisonment for raping minorA Kerala court on Saturday sentenced controversial self-styled antiques dealer Monson Mavunkal to life imprisonment for raping a minor girl...17 Jun, 2023, 07.07 PM IST
- SC overturns Nagpur bench's rulings on sexual offenceThe two accused had been sentenced only under various sections of the IPC by the HC, and not the Pocso Act, and had got away with lighter s...19 Nov, 2021, 06.32 AM IST
- Most important ingredient of sexual assault is sexual intent, not skin-to-skin contact: SCA bench headed by Justice U U Lalit set aside the high court judgement, and said the act of touching the sexual part of the body or any oth...18 Nov, 2021, 12.27 PM IST
- SC reserves verdict on appeals against skin-to-skin' judgement of Bombay HCThe Bombay High Court had said that groping a minor's breast without "skin to skin contact" cannot be termed as sexual assault as defined u...30 Sep, 2021, 04.26 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
- SC stays Bombay HC order acquitting sexual offender under Posco ActJustice Pushpa V Ganediwala of the HC had overturned a lower court order sentencing the accused under Pocso – which carries a minimum jail ...27 Jan, 2021, 11.31 PM IST
- Skin to Skin contact: SC stays Bombay HC order acquitting man under POCSOA bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian stayed the high court order after Attorney General K K Ve...27 Jan, 2021, 02.50 PM IST
- Cabinet note soon to protect minor boys from abuseThe ministry is set to bring in a Cabinet note within the next two weeks so that the proposal can be included in the Bill that the govt wil...14 May, 2018, 07.41 AM IST
- Ordinance likely to award death penalty for raping children up to 12 yrsAccording to the proposal, those convicted of committing rape on children up to 12 years can also be awarded death penalty.21 Apr, 2018, 08.01 AM IST
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