The Gauhati High Court at Aizwal recently set aside the judgment and sentence order passed by a Trial Court under Section 4 of the POCSO Act, on the ground the charge was framed without specifying the charge to be under 4 or 4 of the POCSO Act and the Trial Court did not put any preliminary questions to the victim …
The Gauhati High Court recently set aside the conviction of a man under Section 4 of the POCSO Act passed by the Trial Court, by giving him the benefit of the doubt on the ground that the testimony of the victim girl remained uncorroborated. The single-judge bench of Justice Mridul Kumar Kalita observed: “……considering the fact that the testimony of …
The Karnataka High Court has enhanced the sentence of five years imposed by the special court on an accused convicted under the Protection of Children From Sexual Offences, Act, observing that when the statute has prescribed a minimum sentence of seven years for the offence punishable, the Special Judge did not have any power whatsoever to reduce minimum sentence to …
Upholding the conviction of a man under POCSO for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old minor girl, the Orissa High Court recently observed that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's dream that women feel safe to walk in the streets of India in the midnight is "falling short of reality". The Bench of Justice S. K. Sahoo specifically observed thus: "The father of nation Mohandas …
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