Top Law News Man sentenced to life imprisonment for raping minor girl in UP February 7, 2021 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court in Ballia district in Uttar Pradesh has sentenced a young man to life imprisonment for raping a three-and-a-half-year-old girl, police said on Saturday. Superintendent of Police of Ballia Vipin Tada said the man raped the girl in a village in the Chitbadagaav police station area on September 5, 2019. Based on a complaint filed […] Read more » POCSO Act Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act
Top Law News Not sexual assault if there is no ‘skin to skin’ contact: Bombay High Court January 27, 2021 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Groping a minor’s breast without “skin to skin contact” cannot be termed as sexual assault as defined under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the Bombay High Court has said. Justice Pushpa Ganediwala of the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court, in a judgement passed on January 19, the detailed copy of […] Read more » Bombay High Court Justice Pushpa Ganediwala POCSO Act
High Profile Cases businessman Vikas Sachdev moves HC against 3-yr sentence for molesting ex-actor February 25, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A 41-year-old businessman, convicted for molesting a former actor on board a domestic flight in December 2017, has approached the Bombay High Court against his conviction and three-year sentence. A sessions court on January 15, 2020 convicted Vikas Sachdev under IPC Section 354 (assault or criminal force on woman with an intent to outrage her modesty) […] Read more » POCSO POCSO Act Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act
High Profile Cases UP man gets 20 years in jail for raping minor daughter December 2, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special court here awarded a 20-year jail term to a 50-year-old man for raping his minor daughter three years ago. The court, set up under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, convicted the man on Saturday. Judge Sanjiv Kumar Tiwari also imposed a fine of Rs 56,000 on him after holding […] Read more » 20 years in jail for raping minor daughter POCSO Act rotection of Children from Sexual Offences Act
High Profile Cases Man gets life term for raping 3-yr-old girl in UP October 14, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A local court here sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping a three-year-old girl. The court also imposed Rs 1 lakh fine on him. Assistant Government Advocate Shekhar Verma said on Sunday that Sanjay Dom– a resident of Tikaitnagar Police Station area– lured the girl and took her towards an old hospital where he […] Read more » POCSO Act
Top Law News Man gets 7 years rigorous imprisonment for raping minor girl March 11, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here has sentenced a man from Bhiwandi to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a five-year-old girl in 2016. In a judgement passed recently, district judge H M Patwardhan held Ramesh Rajaram Catham under the Indian Penal Code section 376 (rape) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The […] Read more » judge H M Patwardhan POCSO Act Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act Ramesh Rajaram Catham
Top Law News Court grants bail to elderly man who was accused of raping minor girl on medical grounds January 26, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madhya Pradesh High Court here has granted bail to an old man, charged with sexually assaulting a minor girl, on medical grounds that he was devoid of penile erection and other facts. A single bench of Justice MF Anwar on Tuesday observed, “Looking at the facts and circumstances of the case, the age of […] Read more » Justice MF Anwar Madhya Pradesh High Court POCSO Act
Top Law News 2 men get death sentence for raping minor girl in MP 2 months ago August 21, 2018 / August 21, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Two months after an eight-year-old girl was raped here in Madhya Pradesh, a special court awarded death sentence to two men for the crime today. Special Judge Nisha Gupta held Irfan alias Bhaiyu (20) and Asif (24) guilty and sentenced them to death under the newly-introduced IPC section 376DB (punishment for rape of a woman […] Read more » 2 men get death sentence for raping minor girl IPC section 376DB Irfan alias Bhaiyu (20) and Asif (24) guilty Judge Nisha Gupta POCSO Act
Top Law News Man gets 5 years’ Rigorous Imprisonment for sexually assaulting daughter March 22, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In one of the speediest trials in a POCSO Act case, a city court has sentenced the father of a 13-year-old girl to five years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting her. A fine of Rs 20,000 was also imposed on the 46-year old man, a roadside hawker, by Jimut Bahan Biswas, Special Judge (POCSO […] Read more » 5 years' Rigorous Imprisonment featured five years of rigorous imprisonment POCSO Act Sealdah Court sexually assaulting Special Public Prosecutor
Top Law News Supreme Court seeks data from HCs on pending sexual assault cases against minors March 13, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today directed the Registrar Generals of the High Courts across the country to collect and collate data regarding the pendency of cases of sexual offences against children lodged under the stringent POCSO Act. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud gave the direction […] Read more » featured POCSO Act sexual assault cases
High Profile Cases Need to introspect on effectiveness of POCSO Act: Justice Madan B Lokur February 25, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Justice Madan B Lokur today said time has come to “introspect” on the “effectiveness” of the law to protect children from sexual abuse and what has been achieved in the nearly six years since the enactment of the POCSO Act. He said there is a need to carry out an “assessment of the impact” the […] Read more » featured Justice Madan B. Lokur POCSO POCSO Act
Criminal Law News Top Law News ‘Simple blow on child’s back is not sexual harassment’ August 16, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A simple blow on a child’s back does not amount to sexual harassment under the POCSO law as there must be a sexual intent behind the act, a Delhi court has said. It said that an offence under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act is made out when harassment is done with […] Read more » Court Criminal news Delhi court featured Law Legal News POCSO Act sexual harassment
