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Holding that a four year-old child can not be expected to give cogent evidence with regard to the sexual assault on her, the Madras High Court has set aside a trial court order acquitting a school teacher in Puducherry charged with the crime on the

Two girls were allegedly raped in separate incidents and the accused persons have been arrested in both cases on Friday, police said.

Expressing concern over the "unfortunate" practice of police invoking provisions of sexual assault at the insistenc of a girl's family objecting to her involvement with a boy, the Delhi High Court has said the rigor of POCSO law is being "misapplied"

A 17-year-old girl was sexually exploited by her boyfriend and his friends and then gang-raped by three strangers on the outskirts of Nagpur city, police said today.

A 56-year-old government school teacher has been sentenced to 20 years in prison by a POCSO court in Rajasthan for raping a Class 10 student of his school in 2019.

The provision defining the offence of sexual assault against children under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act must be looked at from the "victim's perspective" and if the "sexual intent" is present, then the offence is made

A POCSO court in Ghaziabad on Tuesday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping and killing a seven-year-old girl, and imposed a pecuniary fine of Rs 1.5 lakh on the convict.

A day after a 34-year-old woman died after she was brutally raped in Mumbai suburb Sakinaka, another incident of sexual abuse has been reported in Maharashtra, this time in Ulhasnagar.

Two women and a teenager were raped in separate incidents in Uttar Pradesh, police said today.

Mumbai police have arrested two persons from Thane district for allegedly sexually harassing a 10-year-old girl by sending obscene pictures and videos to her through social messaging platforms, an official said today.

A former Meghalaya legislator was sentenced to 25 years in jail for raping a minor girl in 2017 when he was an MLA.

A controversial order from the Bombay High Court in a case involving alleged sexual assault on a minor would mean that "someone can wear a surgical glove, exploit a child and get away," Attorney General KK Venugopal told the Supreme Court today.

A POCSO Court in Kota has convicted a 22-year-old man for raping a boy and sentenced him to 20 years of imprisonment, a public prosecutor said on Thursday.

A court in Ambala has sentenced a man to 10-year imprisonment for repeatedly raping his minor daughter.

A Protection of Children from Sexual Offences or POCSO court in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for murdering a boy after sexually abusing him.

Holding that a four year-old child can not be expected to give cogent evidence with regard to the sexual assault on her, the Madras High Court has set aside a trial court order acquitting a school teacher in Puducherry charged with the crime on the

Two girls were allegedly raped in separate incidents and the accused persons have been arrested in both cases on Friday, police said.

Expressing concern over the "unfortunate" practice of police invoking provisions of sexual assault at the insistenc of a girl's family objecting to her involvement with a boy, the Delhi High Court has said the rigor of POCSO law is being "misapplied"

A 17-year-old girl was sexually exploited by her boyfriend and his friends and then gang-raped by three strangers on the outskirts of Nagpur city, police said today.

A 56-year-old government school teacher has been sentenced to 20 years in prison by a POCSO court in Rajasthan for raping a Class 10 student of his school in 2019.

The provision defining the offence of sexual assault against children under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act must be looked at from the "victim's perspective" and if the "sexual intent" is present, then the offence is made

A POCSO court in Ghaziabad on Tuesday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping and killing a seven-year-old girl, and imposed a pecuniary fine of Rs 1.5 lakh on the convict.

A day after a 34-year-old woman died after she was brutally raped in Mumbai suburb Sakinaka, another incident of sexual abuse has been reported in Maharashtra, this time in Ulhasnagar.

Two women and a teenager were raped in separate incidents in Uttar Pradesh, police said today.

Mumbai police have arrested two persons from Thane district for allegedly sexually harassing a 10-year-old girl by sending obscene pictures and videos to her through social messaging platforms, an official said today.

A former Meghalaya legislator was sentenced to 25 years in jail for raping a minor girl in 2017 when he was an MLA.

A controversial order from the Bombay High Court in a case involving alleged sexual assault on a minor would mean that "someone can wear a surgical glove, exploit a child and get away," Attorney General KK Venugopal told the Supreme Court today.

A POCSO Court in Kota has convicted a 22-year-old man for raping a boy and sentenced him to 20 years of imprisonment, a public prosecutor said on Thursday.

A court in Ambala has sentenced a man to 10-year imprisonment for repeatedly raping his minor daughter.

A Protection of Children from Sexual Offences or POCSO court in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for murdering a boy after sexually abusing him.