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Hyderabad: A youngster who sexually assaulted a minor girl three years ago was sentenced to life by a court on Thursday. The court imposed a fine of Rs.2,000 on him as well. Raja Joshua alias Nani (19), a private employee befriended a girl aged around 15 years and spoke to her regularly over phone. On […]
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Hyderabad: The Central Government is discriminate towards Telangana in releasing Nirbhaya Funds for setting up Fast Track Special Courts (FTSCs) to provide speedy justice to the victims of rape and POCSO Act. The Department of Justice is implementing a Centrally Sponsored Scheme for setting up Fast Track Special Courts (FTSCs) and it is funded out […]
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Dakshina Kannada: Karnataka police have booked eight students under Pocso Act (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act) in connection with hosting a kissing challenge at a private residence in Mangaluru city, police said on Friday. A video of minor students of a reputed college smooching in the presence of others at a private residence […]
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Hyderabad: Taking the investigation in the Jubilee Hills gang-rape case nearer to its conclusion, the City Police on Tuesday announced the arrest of two more juveniles, taking the total number of arrests to six. City Police Commissioner CV Anand, addressing a late evening press conference here, said everything was crystal clear now, with the police […]
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Peddapalli: A nine-year old girl was raped by a thirty eight year old man in Upparapalli of Odela mandal on Thursday. According to police, a native of Illandakunta, the victim came to her grandmother’s home in Upparapalli for summer holidays. The girl stayed at home as other family members went to attend NREGS work. While […]
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Chennai: Four boys, all 14-year-olds, were booked under the Prevention of Children from Sexual offences (POCSO) Act and sent to a correctional facility in Kellys, Chennai for raping their classmate at her residence a few days ago. Police said that while there was no penetrative sex, the boys were regularly watching pornographic movies and tried it […]
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Chennai: In a shocking incident, a 12-year-old boy was arrested by the Tanjavur All Women Police after a 17-year-old girl gave birth to a girl after being raped by the boy. He was held under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (Pocso) Act. However, when contacted, the police at Tanjavur All Women Police station […]
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Hyderabad: A 12-year-old was allegedly raped and impregnated by the paramour of her mother at Dundigal on the city outskirts. According to the police, the girl’s mother and the suspect, who were in an illicit relationship, were living together for a decade. He overpowered and raped the child multiple times when she was alone at […]
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Kolar: In a shocking incident, a 14-year-old girl was gang-raped on her birthday in the limits of Kamasamudra Police station in Kolar district of Karnataka. The incident has come to light lately, and four accused have been arrested in this connection, police said on Sunday. The accused have been identified as Anand Kumar, Kantharaju, Praveen […]
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Hyderabad: Nine persons were arrested by Balapur police for allegedly selling a minor girl to a Mumbai man for Rs. 3 lakh. The arrested persons are identified as Syed Altaf Ali, Akhil Ahmed, Zareena Begum, Shabana Begum, Shameem Sulthana, Nasreen Begum, Zahaida Begum, Arshia Begum and Chand Sultana. According to the police, Altaf Ali, who […]
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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 […]
