POCSO Act was not enacted to punish minors in romantic or consensual relationship: Bombay High Court

The Court granted bail to a 23-year-old man booked for kidnapping and raping a minor girl, after noting from the statement of the victim's mother that the relationship was consensual.
POCSO ACT
POCSO ACT

The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act was not enacted to punish minors in a romantic or consensual relationship, the Bombay High Court observed while granting bail to a 23-year-old man who was booked on charges of raping a minor [Imran Iqbal Shaikh v. State of Maharashtra].

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