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POCSO

High Court Round UpLegal RoundUp

100+ Reports from High Courts | Case relating to Kashmiri Pandits, Arya Samaj, Reproductive Rights, Sodomy, Arms Act and more | June Round Up 2022

Allahabad High Court Disability In a case where an employee of Central Bank of India petitioned to be exempted from routine transfers

Published on July 1, 2022July 1, 2022By Editor_4
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Kerala High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Kerala High Court| Can pre-arrest bail be granted to accused sitting abroad? Co-equal bench doubts order in Vijay Babu’s case; Larger Bench to decide

  Kerala High Court: While adjudicating a question of law as to whether pre-arrest bail can be granted to an accused while he

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Karnataka High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Rigour under S. 33(5) POCSO Act gets diluted once the child attains majority; Kar HC allowed cross-examination under S. 311 CrPC

Karnataka High Court: M Nagaprasanna, J. allowed the petition filed seeking further cross examination of the child victim as the victim has

Published on June 24, 2022July 1, 2022By Editor_4
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Meghalaya High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Megh HC │ Punishment for rape reduced considering confession and remorseful statement

Meghalaya High Court: The Division Bench of Sanjib Banerjee, CJ. and W. Diengdoh, J. disposed of an appeal assailing the judgment of

Published on June 17, 2022June 17, 2022By Editor_4
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Delhi High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Del HC | Non-examination of a 4-year-old victim immaterial when scientific and circumstantial evidence prove the guilt of the accused

Delhi High Court: A Division Bench of Mukta Gupta and Mini Pushkarna, JJ. upheld the impugned conviction order considering the accused has

Published on June 14, 2022June 22, 2022By Editor
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Ker HC| Statutory diktat for sexual offenses most often unknown to students and youths; HC directs State to include sessions regarding POCSO Act and S. 376 IPC in curriculum  

“The educational machinery of the State has fallen woefully short in imparting the required awareness to the young children about the heinous crimes and its consequence.” 

Published on June 11, 2022June 17, 2022By Editor_4
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

[Fake Rape] Utt HC | Sexual intercourse found to be a voluntary and conscious act of prosecutrix; HC acquits man wrongfully convicted for rape

Uttaranchal High Court: Ravindra Maithani, J. allowed an appeal against an order of the Trial Court which convicted a man of raping

Published on June 6, 2022June 6, 2022By Editor_4
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

If a boy accused under S. 376 IPC, in consensus with the victim-girl decides to get married, can FIR filed under S. 376 IPC be quashed? Bom HC decides 

Bombay High Court: The Division Bench of Prasanna B. Varale and S.M. Modak, JJ., quashed an FIR filed for an offence under

Published on June 3, 2022June 13, 2022By Bhumika Indulia
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Karnataka High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Kar HC | Teacher aged 55 years harassed a student on separate occasions, booked under POCSO, released on bail

Karnataka High Court: H.P. Sandesh, J. allowed the petition and granted bail to the petitioner in connection with a crime registered in 

Published on May 25, 2022May 25, 2022By Editor_4
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

63-year-old woman aided her 65-year old husband to commit rape on a minor girl: Can she be granted bail? J&K&L HC answers

Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court, Srinagar: Sanjay Dhar, J., expressed that, in the cases involving offences of serious nature falling

Published on May 24, 2022June 3, 2022By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

MP HC | Not entitled to keep the amount of compensation paid the State government in the event of a false rape case; Court allows bail

Madhya Pradesh High Court: Vivek Agarwal, J. deciding a second bail application filed by the applicant in connection with Crime under Sections

Published on May 23, 2022May 27, 2022By Editor_4
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

[POCSO] Ori HC | Proceedings of the High Court cannot be held hostage to the whims of the investigating agency; granted bail to a CCL

Orissa High Court: V Narasingh, J. disposed of the bail application and restrained the Court to not grant any further adjournments and

Published on May 19, 2022May 27, 2022By Editor_4
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Case BriefsSupreme Court

Maternal uncle rapes his 14-year-old niece; will subsequent act of him marrying prosecutrix extinguish all criminal liabilities? SC decides  

Supreme Court: In an interesting case, the Division Bench comprising of L. Nageswara Rao and B.R, Gavai, JJ., acquitted the appellant  who

Published on May 17, 2022May 17, 2022By Editor
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Bombay High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Would kissing on lips and touching private parts of a minor be an offence under S. 377 Penal Code, 1860? Bom HC answers

Bombay High Court: Anuja Prabhudessai, J., observed that touching private parts and kissing on the lips of a minor would not constitute

Published on May 16, 2022By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Utt HC | Minor contradictions or insignificant discrepancies in the statement of a prosecutrix should not be a ground for throwing out an otherwise reliable prosecution case; appeal dismissed in POCSO matter

Uttaranchal High Court: Ramesh Chandra Khulbe, J. dismissed a criminal appeal which was filed from jail assailing the judgment and order whereby

Published on May 11, 2022May 13, 2022By Editor_4
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

MP HC │ Permission to change statement before Court would be dangerous for legal system and it may be also misuse of S. 311 of CrPC; application for restatement after 2 years dismissed

Madhya Pradesh High Court: Anil Verma, J. dismissed a criminal revision filed against the impugned order whereby an application preferred by the

Published on May 10, 2022May 13, 2022By Editor_4
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Sikk HC | Trial Courts should exhibit sensitivity to the plight of a child victim but they cannot go overboard and stonewall steps that are mandatory to be complied with when analysing and interpreting evidence given by  witnesses; Sentence of rape accused modified

Sikkim High Court: The Division Bench of Meenakshi Madan Rai and Bhaskar Rai Pradhan, JJ. partly allowed an appeal which was filed

Published on May 7, 2022May 13, 2022By Editor_4
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Hot Off The PressNews

13-year old gang rape victim allegedly raped by in-charge at a police station: NHRC takes suo motu cognizance

The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, India has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that a 13 years old girl

Published on May 6, 2022May 5, 2022By Bhumika Indulia
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Bombay High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Past pregnancy can be determined on account of permanent changes in the body of a woman: Bom HC

Bombay High Court: While addressing a matter, wherein the accused who was a doctor charged for raping a minor stated that there

Published on April 18, 2022April 28, 2022By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Tri HC | Offence under S. 8 of the POCSO Act not been established beyond reasonable doubt; Court acquits man of POCSO charges

Tripura High Court: Arindam Lodh, J. partly allowed an appeal which was filed against the judgment and order of conviction whereby and

Published on April 16, 2022April 28, 2022By Editor_4
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