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A city court allowed interim bail to Bandi Sai Bageerath in a POCSO case to write his BBA examinations, with condition that he would return to judicial custody after June 25.

"A child below 18 years is incapable of giving consent and therefore, even where there is a consensual romantic relationship with a child, it will attract the provisions of the Act," the Court said.

The DNA report, in this case, had indicated that the accused man had fathered a child born to the child victim.

The Court asked the State to consider framing a 'Singapen Sensitisation Workshop', involving police officers, prosecutors, child welfare authorities, counsellors etc.

While quashing a POCSO case filed by a woman against her estranged husband and his family members, the Court flagged the rising trend of POCSO cases being used as an arm-twisting tactic by women in di ...

A Bench of Justices MM Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh rejected the appeal filed by complainant Ashutosh Brahmachari and also questioned his initial inaction.

The Court recommended disicplinary action against Investigating Officer Nibedita Koley and Special Public Prosecutor Joydeep Mukherjee.

The accused seer is a prominent figure within the Panchamasali sub-caste of the Lingayat community.

The order was passed on a defamation suit moved by the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs.

"I have gone through statement of victim and after going through, I am not inclined to grant any interim order," the judge said.

The Court said that the 1098 child helpline cannot be misused to compel children to make false allegations.

The Court said that it would pass an order on Friday on the plea seeking interim protection from arrest.

The Court upheld the conviction of a man for sexually assaulting a six-year-old in 2013.

The Court said that decisions quashing POCSO Act cases must be founded on the best interests of the de-juré victim and the children born from the union of the parties.

The prosecutrix in the case had complained to police that the accused repeatedly raped her on false assurance of marriage when she was sixteen years of age.

The Allahabad High Court had granted relief to Swami while also raising serious doubts about the prosecution case. The same has now been challenged before the top court.