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‘No mother would gamble with her child’s dignity’: Calcutta High Court rejects convict’s revenge theory in POCSO case

February 04, 2026 10:07 am

POCSO Act life imprisonment: The Calcutta High Court has rejected the petitioner's defense that he was framed due to his alcoholism, and said that the mother of the survivor was not related to the convict.

In another case, the Madiwala police have arrested four men for allegedly sexually harassing a woman and assaulting her fiancé.

Bengaluru police constable sexually harasses boy at Freedom Park, arrested

January 25, 2026 10:09 pm

Yamuna Naik, a police constable attached to Bengaluru’s RT Nagar police station, has been remanded in judicial custody.

‘Consent of a minor irrelevant’: Punjab and Haryana HC rejects anticipatory bail in Pocso case

January 20, 2026 5:54 pm

Punjab and Haryana High Court says litigants cannot be allowed to “play hide and seek with the law” by lodging serious allegations and then resiling from them at will.

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Child survivor’s ‘vocabulary’ prompts Delhi High Court to uphold man’s POCSO conviction

January 10, 2026 3:05 pm

Delhi High Court Child Abuse Case: Justice Neena Bansal Krishna was hearing a plea of a man against the trial court order, where he was convicted for seven years' imprisonment under the provisions of the POCSO Act.

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Meghalaya High Court grants bail to 24-year-old youth in POCSO case, cites ‘romantic relation’

January 06, 2026 1:06 pm

Meghalaya High Court Grants Bail in POCSO Case: Justice Diengdoh has granted bail to accused in the POCSO case referring the apex court's judgement that punishing an adolescent who enters relationship with minor girl by treating him as offender was never objective of Act.

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Success stories under Mission Vihaan | Cricket, classes & exams: Inside Bihar’s Sasaram jail, quiet reforms

January 04, 2026 10:29 am

From allowing inmates to design spaces and encouraging them to resume abandoned education to running recreational radio programmes that prepare them for life beyond prison, Sasaram division prison stands apart among Bihar’s 60 jails for initiatives taken over the last 1.5 years.

The petition filed in Uttarakhand High Court said that the officials are selectively targeting the house due to “malice and ill will” and being guided by the pressure groups in the town.

Uttarakhand High Court stays house demolition of Nainital man accused of minor's rape

December 16, 2025 4:43 pm

Nainital Rape Case Update: The Uttarakhand High Court had pulled up authorities for failing to curb communal tensions in the hill town following the incident in May.

The accused moved the high court to get the FIR under POCSO quashed on the basis of settlement between the parties.

Sexual offences involving children can’t be nullified based on compromise: Delhi High Court refuses to quash FIR in POCSO Case

December 04, 2025 2:40 pm

Delhi HC POCSO Act ruling: The court said that such acts cannot be legitimised or condoned by exercise of high court’s inherent jurisdiction under Section 528 (powers to quash FIR) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.