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NCW takes cognisance of 'horrific gang rape' of minor girl in Tamil Nadu, seeks police reportThe National Commission for Women has taken suo motu cognisance of a horrific gang rape of a minor girl in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvannamalai dist...- 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...
- Bring down age of consent from 18 to 16 yrs, SC toldThe Supreme Court faces a plea to lower the age of consent. Advocate Indira Jaising argues current laws criminalize adolescent relationship...
- Pressing a minor girl's lips and sleeping next to her without sexually motivated advances not a POCSO offence: HCThe Delhi High Court ruled that touching a minor girl's lips and sleeping next to her without sexually motivated intent does not constitute...
- Ekta Kapoor, facing a case under under POCSO Act over 'Gandi Baat' web series, offers clarificationEkta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor address allegations under the POCSO Act concerning inappropriate scenes involving minors in 'Gandi Baat'. ALT...
- Badlapur Sexual Assault Case: Main accused sent to 14-day judicial custodyThe main accused in the sexual assault of two schoolchildren in Maharashtra's Badlpur was sent to 14 days of judicial custody by a Maharash...
- Badlapur assault case: SIT registers FIR against school authoritiesThe Special Investigation Team (SIT) has registered an FIR against the school authorities involved in the Badlapur sexual assault case for ...
- WB police names Instagram as co-accused in FIR under POCSO ActWest 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...
- Army major dismissed, given five years' jail for assaulting minorA serving Major of the Indian Army has been sentenced to five years' rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting a minor. The court marti...
- 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 ...
- Rahul Gandhi's act of posting rape victim's family pic on social media a serious offence: Child rights panel to HCCongress leader Rahul Gandhi's tweet, featuring a minor rape victim's grieving parents, is a 'grave offence' and Twitter must face the cons...
- 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...
- Delhi LG proposes MHA to regard non-consensual sex with wife aged 15-18 yrs to be treated as rapeAs per Delhi Police sources, Delhi Lt Governor V K Saxena has recommended to the home ministry that non-consensual intercourse with a wife ...
- Supreme Court protects minors seeking abortion, says doctors need not disclose their identities to copsA 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...
- Karnataka Murugha Mutt sexual assault case: NCPCR seeks reportTwo minor girls have accused the Muruga Mutt head Shivamurthy Muruga Sharanaru and three others of rape and sexual assault, following which...
- Court records girls' statements in Karnataka seer Pocso case; Dalit leaders seek case transfer to non-BJP stateCourt records girls' statements in Karnataka seer Pocso case; Dalit leaders seek case transfer to non-BJP state. Reports said one of the tw...
- HC ruling on Muslim minor girl’s marriage challenged in top courtThe NCPCR, in a special leave petition filed on Saturday by advocate Swarupama Chaturvedi, according to people in know of the matter, has c...
- NCPCR summons Facebook officials over Rahul Gandhi's Instagram postNCPCR had asked Facebook to take appropriate action against the Instagram profile of Gandhi over the alleged violation of provisions of the...
- After Twitter, NCPCR demands action against Instagram profile of Rahul GandhiSection 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...
- Why special court set up under POCSO abolished, asks Delhi high courtThe Delhi high court has asked its administration to answer why it abolished a special court set up under the POCSO Act.
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