The Supreme Court mentioned a shortage of trial court judges to enforce directives, such as establishing a special court in each district f...

The SC judgment mandates intermediaries to report child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to local authorities under the Protection of Children ...

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 amend the POCSO Act, replacing 'child pornography' with 'child sexual exploitative and abuse mate...

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

The police may not have responded to the issue earlier but they alone cannot be blamed as even the health department did not report teenage...

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

Speaking at a two-day national programme on the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the CJI said it is an unfortunate ...

In the judgement passed on November 5, a division bench of Justices Suraj Govindaraj and G Basavaraja said, "Having come across several cas...

Court records girls' statements in Karnataka seer Pocso case; Dalit leaders seek case transfer to non-BJP state. Reports said one of the tw...

The committee said that it believed that minor sexual offenders may commit more serious and heinous crime if left untreated and uncounselle...

In December last year, the state had announced the setting up of 218 fast-track courts after a spate of rape cases that came to a head with...

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

Justice Lokur said despite there being more number of cases of child abuse than murder, "we spend more time discussing murders" and wondere...

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who is heading a GoM set up the AAP cabinet in this regard, sought ideas, inputs and suggestions.

A city court has observed that consensual sex with a girl aged below 18 years does not constitute an offence under the Protection of Childr...