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Khammam: Economic offences and POCSO Act cases increased in Khammam district in 2021. According to the annual crime report released by the Khammam Police Commissionerate, as many as 291 economic offences have taken place in 2021 while a total of 237 such offences were reported in 2020. Cyber crimes have come down with just eight […]
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Mumbai: A special POCSO court in Mumbai on Wednesday convicted a Catholic priest and sentenced him to life imprisonment for raping a 13-year-old boy in 2015. The teenaged boy was sodomized by Father Johnson Lawrence in a church. The parents of the victim registered a complaint and the priest was arrested in December 2015 and […]
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Hyderabad: A 19 year-old student, pursuing a course in multimedia, who posed as a woman and collected nude videos and pictures of young girls after befriending them on Instagram to later blackmail them, was arrested here. According to the Hyderabad cybercrime police, Palakurthi Ajay (19) of Dilsukhnagar and native of Warangal, befriended a minor girl […]
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Hyderabad: A sharp increase was witnessed in crime against children and women in the city this year with the police registering 357 cases under POCSO Act and 2,393 cases under various IPC sections against those involved in crimes against women. Additional Commissioner of Police (Crimes and SHE teams) Shikha Goel said the police were seeing […]
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Hyderabad: In a rare instance of a woman being booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, a woman from Bengaluru was charged with sexually exploiting a teenage boy, who is her nephew, and extorting gold and cash from him. According to the Banjara Hills police, the woman allegedly took her nephew, […]
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Prayagraj: Observing that ‘oral sex’ with a minor does not come under the ‘aggravated sexual assault’ category in the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the Allahabad High Court has reduced the jail term of a man convicted of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy from 10 years to seven years. In 2016, an […]
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Karnataka: The Karnataka Police have arrested a 34-year-old man on charges of raping a minor girl studying in Class 10 in Dakshina Kannada district, the police said on Saturday. The arrested person has been identified as Keshava, a resident of Madmittinaru village near Uppinangadi town. The accused had been arrested under the Protection of Children […]
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday quashed the controversial skin-to-skin judgement of the Bombay High Court in a case under the POCSO Act, saying the most important ingredient constituting sexual assault is sexual intent and not skin-to-skin contact with the child. The high court had held that no offence of sexual assault under the […]
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Hyderabad: A man, who repeatedly raped his step-daughter, impregnating her at least thrice and making her deliver a baby when she was just 14 years old, was on Thursday sentenced to life by a local court. As per the case, the accused, a resident of Kanchanbagh, began sedating her and then threatening her with a […]
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Hyderabad: A 27-year-old woman, the caretaker in a school in Barkas in the Old City, who sexually abused and also used a lit cigarette on a minor boy in the school washroom, was sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment, on Thursday. The sentence was pronounced by the special court for POCSO Act cases here […]
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The court also imposed a fine on the suspended headmaster who was arrested after one of the victim's mother complained
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The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act court judge Amar Singh also imposed a cumulative fine of Rs 2 lakh on convict Saubi.
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Court also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 and in default of payment of the fine, the 28-year-old accused must undergo simple imprisonment for one year
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The court, which delivered the judgment in 164 days, directed the District Legal Services Authority to take steps for paying Rs 7 lakh as compensation to the victim at the earliest
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Rachakonda Police Commissioner Mahesh Bhagwat took initiation in conducting a speedy trial of the case and personally supervised the court matter
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Hyderabad: Justice K Lakshman of the Telangana High Court made it clear that the court was not inclined to entertain quash petitions in heinous crimes pertaining to rape. “Rape itself was a heinous crime, more so when it is also an offence connected to the POCSO Act, we are not at all inclined to quash […]
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Mulugu: A 12-year-old differently-abled girl was allegedly raped by a youth at Bandarupally village under Venkatapur mandal in the district. Though the incident took place a couple of days ago, it came to light on Thursday when the parents of the girl approached the police to lodge a complaint. Sources said the girl, a native […]
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Hyderabad: The Jawaharnagar police on Saturday arrested a 40-year-old mason from Odisha on charges of kidnapping and raping a three-and-a-half-year-old girl at Dammaiguda in Keesara last Sunday. Police said that even as the investigation was on into the incident, the suspect tried to kidnap another minor girl on Friday from the same area. The arrested […]
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The accused, who was identified as Pasunuri Ilaiah (55), a construction worker, allegedly raped the girl when the mother of the victim was away from home on Monday
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Hyderabad: A 16-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped and later harassed by a youngster, died by suicide in her house at the BSNL staff quarters in Jubilee Hills here late on Thursday. The victim, an intermediate second year student in a private college, was allegedly trapped by one Abdul Samad, who then raped her and […]
