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As per the information, the incident took place under the limits of Ramkrishna Nagar police station in Southern Assam.
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Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has held that the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) and IPC Acts are substantive and prevail over personal laws. A bench headed by Justice Rajendra Badamikar made the observation recently while looking into the bail petition of a 19-year-old rape-accused from Chikkamagaluru. The accused had lured a 16-year-old […]
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Sangareddy: A private school teacher was arrested on charges of sexually harassing a Class 9 girl student in Sangareddy town on Sunday. According to the Sangareddy Town Police, the parents of the girl approached the police on Saturday evening. After an inquiry with the management and the victim’s classmates, the police found that the girl’s […]
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A special court dealing with POCSO cases on Wednesday sentenced a man to seven years of imprisonment and his wife to three years of imprisonment for raping a minor girl at Buthayi village in Ichoda mandal five years ago.
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Siddipet: A man, who allegedly raped his two step-daughters multiple times in the absence of their mother, is on the run after the police were alerted by neighbours. According to the Dubbaka Police, the mother of the two victims, had married a man three years ago after her first husband died a few years ago. […]
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ADGP, Women Safety Wing (WSW), Swati Lakra welcomed the judgement pronounced by Special POCSO fast-track court in Sangareddy district in connection with the Ameenpur rape and murder case of a minor girl.
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A local court in Chitradurga will, on Friday, pronounce its verdict on the bail petition of rape accused Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaruo in the Lingayat mutt sex scandal case.
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Mahabubabad: POCSO fast-track court judge P Vasant Patil has found Gabbeta Chandraiah (41) of Garnepally village in Zaffergadh mandal of Jangaon district guilty of raping a minor girl , and sentenced him to 20 years imprisonment besides imposing a penalty of Rs 2,000 on him on Friday. Chandraiah was arrested as the rape case was […]
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There are multiple alarming trends in the just-released report of the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB). An increase in the instances of crime against women and children and a sharp rise in the number of suicides among daily wage earners are among the ominous indicators of a society that is grappling with the long-term socio-economic […]
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Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has quashed a case lodged under the provision of the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) and upheld the marriage between the accused and the victim. The bench observed on Tuesday that the incident had taken place when the victim was 17 years. However, she married the accused […]
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Amethi: A principal in a private school has been arrested for allegedly molesting a Class 11 student. According to police reports, the principal had summoned the girl on Sunday to fill a form. Despite it being a holiday, the 17-year-old went to the school with her Aadhaar card to fill the form. The girl later […]
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Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has quashed the criminal proceedings against Reverend Prasanna Kumar Samuel in a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. Prasanna Kumar Samuel is a Bishop of Church of South India (CSI) Karnataka Central Diocese, Bengaluru. The case was registered against five people, including Prasanna Kumar Samuel […]
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Hyderabad: The City Police Cybercrime wing has intensified efforts to identify persons who shared the videos of the Jubilee Hills gang-rape victim on social media. Five cases were booked by the Hyderabad Cybercrime police against different persons who allegedly circulated the videos on social media and revealed the identity of the victim in violation of […]
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Hyderabad: IT Minister KT Rama Rao has on Thursday welcomed the reported move of the Telangana police to appeal before the Juvenile Board seeking exemption for trial of the juveniles apprehended in the Jubilee Hills gang-rape case as adults. “If you are adult enough to commit a crime as heinous as rape, one must also […]
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Hyderabad: The six suspects in the Jubilee Hills gang-rape appear to have helped the police identify them with the videos they themselves shot while committing the offence. City Police Commissioner C V Anand said it was the CCTV footage from the pub, visuals from a bakery in Jubilee Hills where the suspects went at least […]
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Hyderabad: A 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped multiple times and impregnated by her elder brother in Bachupally on the city outskirts. According to the police, the girl’s 17-year-old brother was allegedly influenced by explicit content on social media and pornography and resorted to the crime. Since the last one year, the teenager, in the absence […]
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Chennai: In a significant judgment, the Madras High Court has held that an accused in a POCSO case might be allowed to cross-examine the victim, who was a minor at the time of occurrence, but a major (21 years old) now. Justice A D Jagadish Chandira gave the ruling while allowing a criminal original petition […]
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Kumram Bheem Asifabad/Mancherial: Telangana High Court judge Justice K Laxman expressed concern on growing violence against children and stressed the need to reduce crimes against them. He along with Collector Rahul Raj formally inaugurated a special court for disposing cases booked under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, here on Sunday. Justice […]
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Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has said that the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act was not intended for teenagers’ romantic affairs. The court granted bail to a POCSO accused youth, who ran away with a 14- year-old girl and got married with her in a temple. The youth, who was a minor […]
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Mainpuri: The Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the death of a 16-year-old school girl who was allegedly raped and found hanging in a prayer room in the school in 2019, has filed a 2,000-page charge sheet against the former principal of the residential school. Special public prosecutor (POCSO) Anoop Yadav said: “The charge sheet was […]