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The FIR alleges that the victim was sexually harassed when she went to seek help on February 2. The victim had sought help in a case related to another alleged sexual assault on her.

Karnataka Police have booked hockey player Varun Kumar under the POCSO Act following a complaint by a 22-year-old airline staff.

On a complaint from the mother of the victim the police booked a case under various Sections of POCSO and Indian Penal Code and arrested him on January 19 last year.

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Maharashtra Women's Commission member Abha Pandey met the toddler at the government hospital and reviewed her condition on Friday.

The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court-1 also slapped the 52-year-old accused with a fine of Rs 80,000.

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This incident took place in the presence of public and was captured in the CCTV camera.

According to Senior Police Inspector Tanveer Shaikh of Maharashtra Police, the girl had gone to a stationery shop in Turbhe Sector-22 on Saturday to purchase material for the school project.

The case was registered on Friday after the 16-year-old girl told her mother about the incident, police said.

According to the police, in 2018, Mohd Irfan, a resident of Falaknuma sexually assaulted a 9-year-old child

The FIR on the accusations made by a minor was filed under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, along with relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code concerning the act of outraging modesty.

A special POCSO court here on Monday sentenced a man to 20 years of life imprisonment for raping a 6-year-old girl.

POCSO court-2 in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar has sentenced a 30-year-old man, Sandeep, to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl

A local court convicted an advocate and his son in a sexual assault case of a minor girl and sent them to jail

I Additional District and Sessions (POCSO) court judge K Prabhakar Rao delivered the verdict, awarding the jail term and fine to Kamera Raghuvaran, a 23-year-old driver from Dubbapalli in Jaipur mandal after finding him guilty.

According to the official, the accused had previously faced multiple cases of rape, molestation, and other offenses.

Ashfaq Alam was detained in connection with the crime and spent one month in jail before being released on bail five years ago.

Giving details of the case, the police said two videos surfaced purportedly showing advocate Gupta abusing two different girls.