School Girls Allegedly Forced To Remove Clothes For Phone Search: HC Issues Contempt Notice To Indore Police Commissioner For Not Filing Report
4 months ago

School Girls Allegedly Forced To Remove Clothes For Phone Search: HC Issues Contempt Notice To Indore Police Commissioner For Not Filing Report

Live Law  

In a case concerning a government school teacher allegedly forcing minor girls to remove their clothes to search for a mobile phone, the Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court issued a show-cause notice to the city Police Commissioner to explain why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against him for not complying with its order. “Let a show-cause notice be issued to Police Commissioner, Indore as to why contempt proceedings may not be initiated against him for noncompliance of the aforesaid order dated 30.08.2024. An affidavit to this effect shall be filed within a week and Police Commissioner, Indore is directed to remain personally present before this Court on the next date of hearing," the court directed. The petitioner highlighted the lapse and referred to the earlier bench's directive given on August 30 in which the court ordered the Indore Police Commissioner to review the matter under the POCSO Act and file a report.

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HC refuses to stop POCSO-accused woman’s access to minor daughter
2 months, 2 weeks ago

HC refuses to stop POCSO-accused woman’s access to minor daughter

Hindustan Times  

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Tuesday refused to interfere with a Pune family court order, setting out an arrangement of sequential alternate access to a minor girl child, of 15 days each between her father and mother. A vacation bench of justice Somasekhar Sundaresan refused to pass any interim order on the petition filed by the woman’s estranged husband, …

Headmaster Guardian Of Entire School, Must Immediately Intimate Authorities Of Incidents Under POCSO Act: Madras HC Refuses To Quash Proceedings
3 months, 1 week ago

Headmaster Guardian Of Entire School, Must Immediately Intimate Authorities Of Incidents Under POCSO Act: Madras HC Refuses To Quash Proceedings

Live Law  

While refusing to set aside the criminal proceedings initiated against a school headmaster, the Madras High Court emphasised that the Headmaster was the guardian of the entire school and was expected to report any instances under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. If any incident covered under POCSO Act has taken place, the same has to be immediately …

Alleged assault of POCSO Act victim’s parents | Madras High Court directs police to respond
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Alleged assault of POCSO Act victim’s parents | Madras High Court directs police to respond

The Hindu  

The Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the Greater Chennai City Police to respond to the allegation of Anna Nagar All Women Police Station Inspector Raji having assaulted the parents of a 10-year-old girl subjected to sexual assault allegedly by her neighbour. Subramaniam and N. Mala wanted the Anna Nagar Deputy Commissioner of Police and the Inspector, who had been …

Badlapur sexual assault case: Maharashtra Bandh to FIR against school for not complying with POCSO Act
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Badlapur sexual assault case: Maharashtra Bandh to FIR against school for not complying with POCSO Act

Live Mint  

Badlapur sexual assault case: An FIR against the school authorities, for not complying with the provisions of section 19 of the POCSO Act, in connection with the alleged sexual assault of two fourth-grade girls at a school in Badlapur, Maharashtra. The SIT in the case said, “FIR registered against the school authorities for not complying to the provisions of section …

Badlapur assault case: SIT registers FIR against school authorities
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Badlapur assault case: SIT registers FIR against school authorities

Op India  

The special investigation team for Badlapur sexual assault against minors has registered an FIR against the school authorities, for not complying with the provisions of section 19 of the POCSO Act which mandates that every authority when they come to know about any such kind of sexual assault against minors are obligated to report this to police authorities for further …

POCSO Act | Showing Private Parts, Dirty Movies To A Child Is Prima Facie 'Sexual Harassment': Uttarakhand High Court
7 months, 3 weeks ago

POCSO Act | Showing Private Parts, Dirty Movies To A Child Is Prima Facie 'Sexual Harassment': Uttarakhand High Court

Live Law  

The Uttarakhand High Court has observed that the exhibition of private parts to a child, showing him dirty films, would prima facie amount to 'sexual harassment' of a child and make out an offence under Section 11 read with Section 12 of the POCSO Act. Against the backdrop of these observations, the Court said that the sexual intent of the …

POCSO Act | Repeatedly Following, Watching Or Contacting Child With Sexual Intent Amounts To Sexual Harassment : Jharkhand High Court
1 year, 2 months ago

POCSO Act | Repeatedly Following, Watching Or Contacting Child With Sexual Intent Amounts To Sexual Harassment : Jharkhand High Court

Live Law  

The Jharkhand High Court has ruled that engaging in persistent acts of following, watching, or contacting a child with sexual intent constitutes sexual harassment under Section 11 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012. As such, the act of the present petitioner comes within periphery of section 11 of the POCSO Act, 2012 which amounts sexual harassment …

POCSO Act is a gender-neutral legislation: Delhi High Court
1 year, 7 months ago

POCSO Act is a gender-neutral legislation: Delhi High Court

The Hindu  

The Delhi High Court has said that the POCSO Act is a gender-neutral legislation while rejecting an assertion that the law is being "misused" as it is a "gender based" enactment. Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma took exception to the submission made by an accused under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act seeking to cross-examine the victim again before …

POCSO Act Is Gender Neutral, Misleading To Argue ‘It Is Gender-Based Legislation And Is Being Misused’: Delhi High Court
1 year, 7 months ago

POCSO Act Is Gender Neutral, Misleading To Argue ‘It Is Gender-Based Legislation And Is Being Misused’: Delhi High Court

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has observed that the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, is a gender-neutral legislation and that it is insensitive to argue that the law is being misused.While dealing with a POCSO case where the accused submitted that the enactment is a gender-based law and therefore is being misused, Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma said:“To say …

[POCSO Act] When “Ring Of Truth” Found In Victim's Story, Her Non-Examination By Police Is Of No Consequence: Calcutta High Court
1 year, 8 months ago

[POCSO Act] When “Ring Of Truth” Found In Victim's Story, Her Non-Examination By Police Is Of No Consequence: Calcutta High Court

Live Law  

The Calcutta High Court has recently upheld the conviction of a boy who allegedly “pawed” at a minor girl while she was accompanied by her mother in a public area. A single-judge bench of Justice Siddhartha Roy Chowdhury upheld the conviction on the basis on the minor’s testimony and noted that non-examination of the victim by the Police would be …

Delhi HC Seeks Centre's Stand on Plea Against Mandatory Reporting of POCSO Offences
2 years ago

Delhi HC Seeks Centre's Stand on Plea Against Mandatory Reporting of POCSO Offences

News 18  

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought the Centre’s stand on a plea against the provisions of POCSO Act pertaining to mandatory reporting of sexual offences against minors to police. A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad issued notice on the petition by lawyer Harsh Vibhore Singhal who sought ”judicial invalidation” of sections 19, 21 …

POCSO case against Nellore school head, bus driver
2 years, 3 months ago

POCSO case against Nellore school head, bus driver

Deccan Chronicle  

Tirupati: Balaji Nagar Police have booked a case under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act against the correspondent of a private school and its bus driver for allegedly abusing an eighth standard girl student sexually. Two days ago, the mother of the girl student had staged a sit-in for more than two hours before the correspondent's Nakshatra School located …

[Sexual Offences] Calcutta HC Issues Slew Of Directions To Special Courts To Ensure Smooth & Prompt Examination Of Minor Victims
2 years, 6 months ago

[Sexual Offences] Calcutta HC Issues Slew Of Directions To Special Courts To Ensure Smooth & Prompt Examination Of Minor Victims

Live Law  

The Calcutta High Court recently issued a slew of directions to the Special Courts to ensure a smooth, prompt and seamless examination of the minor victim of sexual offences.The bench of Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Ananya Bandyopadhyay issued the directions while rejecting a bail plea filed by POCSO accused as it noted that the trial Court had failed to …

Holding girl’s hands, opening pant’s zip not sexual assault under POCSO, says Bombay HC
4 years, 1 month ago

Holding girl’s hands, opening pant’s zip not sexual assault under POCSO, says Bombay HC

Firstpost  

Nagpur: The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has ruled that holding the hands of a minor girl and opening of the zip of pants does not fall under the purview of ‘sexual assault’ or ‘aggravated sexual assault’ of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. The high court noted that the definition of “sexual assault” under the …

Supreme Court stays Bombay HC order on ‘skin-to-skin’ contact for sexual assault under POCSO Act
4 years, 1 month ago

Supreme Court stays Bombay HC order on ‘skin-to-skin’ contact for sexual assault under POCSO Act

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court has stayed a controversial Bombay High Court verdict, which acquitted a man found guilty of assault under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act on the grounds that he groped his victim over her clothes and there was no ‘skin-to-skin’ contact between them. Venugopal made a special mention in court, saying the High Court decision would set …

How Bombay High Court’s Interpretation of POCSO Act Fails Us
4 years, 1 month ago

How Bombay High Court’s Interpretation of POCSO Act Fails Us

The Quint  

A shocking judgment was recently passed by the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court, wherein it was held that in absence of "skin-to-skin" contact, while groping a 12-year-old child's breasts, no offence of sexual assault would be made under Section 7 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012. The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, 27 January, stayed …

With increasing instances of child sex abuse coming to light, POCSO Act strives to remove procedural complications
7 years, 6 months ago

With increasing instances of child sex abuse coming to light, POCSO Act strives to remove procedural complications

Firstpost  

The POCSO Act, which does not discriminate on the basis of gender of the victim, provides for a variety of offenses under which someone accused of child sex abuse can be punished. Reporting of cases of child abuse Beyond stipulating details of how the incident is to be reported to the local police and the duty of the police to …

A Case Of Perjury Against A Minor: The POCSO Act And Its Implementation
8 years, 1 month ago

A Case Of Perjury Against A Minor: The POCSO Act And Its Implementation

Live Law  

The issue of child sexual abuse has received much-needed attention from the legislatures in recent times. On 22 December 2016, in an unprecedented move, a Special Court in Thane, Maharashtra issued a perjury notice to a 16 year-old minor girl in a case under the POCSO Act. Despite the amendment to Section 146 of the Indian Evidence Act 1871, where …

A Case Of Perjury Against A Minor: The POCSO Act And Its Implementation
8 years, 1 month ago

A Case Of Perjury Against A Minor: The POCSO Act And Its Implementation

Live Law  

The issue of child sexual abuse has received much-needed attention from the legislatures in recent times. On 22 December 2016, in an unprecedented move, a Special Court in Thane, Maharashtra issued a perjury notice to a 16 year-old minor girl in a case under the POCSO Act. Despite the amendment to Section 146 of the Indian Evidence Act 1871, where …

Delhi Police told to ensure registration of child sexual abuse cases under POCSO
12 years, 2 months ago

Delhi Police told to ensure registration of child sexual abuse cases under POCSO

The Hindu  

A Sessions court here has expressed concern that the Delhi Police are not registering cases of sexual exploitation of children under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, nor conducting their investigations in line with the requirements laid down in the legislation. Interestingly, the court also applied the recently notified POCSO in a case that took place prior …

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