Sexual Assault under POCSO Archives

Chest and breast distinction in POCSO cases

“Chest” and “Breast” distinction immaterial in POCSO Cases; Grabbing child’s chest with sexual intent amounts to sexual assault: Kerala HC

Kerala High Court held that in cases involving child victims, expressions used to describe the act of sexual assault must be interpreted in the factual context rather than through strict anatomical distinctions.

Case Briefs High Courts

‘Saying ‘I Love You’ alone not sexual assault in absence of proven sexual intent’; Chhattisgarh HC upholds acquittal of man in POCSO case

“It was his solitary act of showing his “expression of love”, and a close scrutiny of her statements vis-a-vis the statements of her friends, would reveal that it was not made with an intention of his sexual desire.”