POSCO Act

Undertrial prisoner in Pocso case dies by suicide at Bengaluru District Court premises: police

October 10, 2025 3:07 pm

The undertrial prisoner was arrested in April this year by the Bengaluru police on charges of raping a girl under the age of 16.

Live-in against settled law in 'Indian middle-class society': Allahabad HC

June 27, 2025 7:49 pm

A single bench of Justice Siddharth also expressed concern over rising number of such cases.

Karnataka man held for raping minor daughter for a year, impregnating her: Police

April 09, 2025 10:33 pm

According to police, the man had threatened to kill her minor daughter if she revealed the abuse to anyone.

'Filming of students changing clothes horrendous': Karnataka HC rejects plea to quash Pocso case against teacher

September 06, 2024 6:24 pm

The teacher of a residential school was booked for sexual harassment under Pocso Act in December 2023 after he allegedly filmed girl students on mobile phones.

In Pocso case against Yediyurappa, victim's brother moves Karnataka High Court seeking speedy probe

June 13, 2024 1:31 am

The victim's mother died on May 26, and the brother approached the court, saying the police had not progressed with the investigation even after two months of the registration of the case.

Minor tribal girl in Madhya Pradesh village rejects sexual advances, choked to death: police

August 30, 2023 3:47 am

According to police, the incident took place on the intervening night of August 24 and 25, when the accused, aged around 45, entered the girl’s home around midnight with an accomplice. The two allegedly took her to another room and killed her, police said.

‘Hostile’ witness does not mean ‘unreliable’, says Delhi HC, upholds 5-year jail term to school bus driver in POCSO case

March 30, 2023 3:01 pm

The school bus driver was convicted of sexually assaulting two 10-year-old girls in 2014.

Man gets death sentence for rape, murder of 11-yr-old girl in Surat

March 29, 2023 6:34 am

In the order, Special POCSO judge BG Golani mentioned,“Both the accused... have been found guilty and convicted under IPC sections 302, 376(2)(j), 376 (3), 376 (a), 376 (a)(b), 376 (d) (b), 342, 363, 201, 34 and 114, as well as different sections of the POCSO Act.”

No requirement in law to make rape victim party in accused’s bail plea: Amicus to Delhi HC

February 01, 2023 9:26 am

The court was hearing the bail plea of a man accused of raping a minor under IPC’s Section 376 as well as provisions of the Pocso Act.

Man arrested in Pune for trying to throw 'acid-like chemical’ at minor girl

January 31, 2023 11:44 am

According to the complaint filed by the 16-year-old girl’s mother with Pune police, the 24-year-old man had been sexually harassing the girl since October last year.

Clear Conflict Between Muslim Personal Law & Provisions Of Pocso, Observes Delhi Court

June 22, 2020 7:07 pm