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The Court made the observation while directing a CBI probe into allegations that police in Chennai violated the rights of a minor sexual assault victim and assaulted her parents.

The actress herself had recently accused several prominent actors from the Malayalam film industry of sexual abusing her before her cousin filed a complaint against her.

The Court was told that an inspector of the Anna Nagar All Women Police Station in Chennai had questioned the minor victim in the absence of her parents, and later assaulted the parents.

The Court was dealing with a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition filed by Abhishek Yadav, a social worker who has been working to provide support and assistance to the victims of child sexual ab ...

The woman owned a homestay called Budgies Cottage where the two minors were allegedly subjected to sexual assault.

A children's court had closed the solely on the ground that the victim was 16 years and 4 months old on the day of the alleged incident.

After a delayed ossification test revealed that the victim was not a minor, the Court also underscored that the POCSO Act was never intended to criminalise consensual romantic relationships between ad ...

A different bench of the High Court had earlier accepted the compromise and quashed two POCSO cases against the same accused.

The scandal involved a series incidents of gang rape and exploitation of over 100 school and college girls aged 11 to 20.

The Court dismissed a plea to discharge an 80-year-old lawyer from a POCSO case, stating that the accused's culpable mental state cannot be evaluated at the pre-trial stage when a prima facie case exi ...

The Court called the facts of the case peculiar as it is rare for a complainant in a rape case to file a petition for quashing the First Information Report (FIR) registered on her complaint.

High Court ruled that the pronoun ‘he’ appearing in Section 3 of POCSO Act cannot be given a restrictive meaning to say it refers only to a male.