A POCSO court in Arunachal Pradesh sentenced a former school warden to death for sexually assaulting 21 children. The verdict also convicte...

The Supreme Court of India has highlighted the critical issue of child sexual exploitation and the necessity of the POCSO Act, 2012. The co...

The Supreme Court has urged Parliament to redefine 'child pornography' as 'child sexually abusive and exploitative material.' The Court emp...

The Supreme Court will deliver its judgment on a plea challenging a Madras High Court ruling that downloading and watching child pornograph...

West Bengal police filed an FIR naming Instagram as a co-accused under POCSO and IT Act. The FIR was reviewed by ET. Section 12 of POCSO Ac...

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has raised concerns about an app disseminating explicit and objectionable material t...

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

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a plea by an NGO against any reduction in the age of consent. The NGO argues that this reduction would...

Delhi police on June 15 filed a cancellation report in Patiala House Court in the case filed against BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. This...

The new system of police is closely monitoring the cases registered under Pocso Act right from the registration of the cases and trial to i...

Officials are asked to reach out to families and appraise them of trial’s developments

In the first case, the HC rejected the contention that "under Mohammedan Law, the puberty is the consideration for marriage and normal pube...

A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud, A S Bopanna and J B Pardiwala said to ensure that the benefit of Rule 3B(b) is extended to all women a...

NCPCR had asked Facebook to take appropriate action against the Instagram profile of Gandhi over the alleged violation of provisions of the...

Section 74 of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015, prohibits the disclosure of identity of a child in any form of media and Section 23 of the PO...

The commission said the “contents of the media report, if true, are enough to prima facie believe that the public servants have failed to p...

Maneka Gandhi said NCPCR has set up 605 special courts across 654 districts under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO).