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The Allahabad high court granted anticipatory bail to seer Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati and his disciple Mukundanand Brahmachari in a case involving allegations of sexual exploitation of minors under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.The relief was granted on Wednesday by justice Jitendra Kumar Sinha, who also directed both the complainant and the…
3-year jail to 79-year-old man in Pocso case (Representaive image) MUMBAI: Observing that the child only accompanied him because she trusted him as a grandfather, a special court convicted and sentenced a 79-year-old man to three years of simple imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in 2019. The court found the accused guilty of…
Nashik cops book 8 Class X students under Pocso for assaulting younger boys (Representative image) NASHIK: The Nashik rural police registered a case under relevant sections of the Protection of Children From Sexual Offences Act (Pocso) against eight Class X students for forcing eight younger students, of Classes V and VI, into unnatural sex at…
Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Allahabad high court on Friday gave relief to Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati in the sexual harassment case registered at Jhunsi police station by staying his arrest.The court order grants interim protection from coercive action until the next hearing in the matter.A case was registered against Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati…
A file photo of Uttarakhand high court The Uttarakhand high court has quashed criminal proceedings in a POCSO-linked case against a 21-year-old man from Udham Singh Nagar, holding that the continuation of prosecution would serve no meaningful purpose where the parties have since lawfully married, are cohabiting peacefully, and the woman is carrying a pregnancy….
National shooting coach Ankush Bharadwaj (IANS Photo) GURGAON: A national shooting coach, who allegedly invited a trainee to his room at a 5-star hotel in Surajkund for a “focused discussion” about her match performance and sexually assaulted her, has been charged under provisions of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act in an FIR…
File photo: Kuldeep Singh Sengar NEW DELHI: Kuldeep Singh Sengar, former UP MLA convicted of raping a minor girl in Unnao in 2017, did not come under the definition of a public servant under the Pocso Act, Delhi high court held in its Dec 23 order suspending his sentence.In a curious move, high court has…
MUMBAI: After spending eight years in jail on charges of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old intellectually disabled girl, a 56-year-old driver was recently acquitted by a special Pocso court.The prosecution failed to prove the “basic foundational facts” of the case, highlighting major inconsistencies regarding the girl’s age, her mental capacity, and a significant contradiction between her…
NEW DELHI: Noting that the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act does not address ‘online grooming’ explicitly, the National Commission for Women (NCW) has recommended that a new clause be introduced in the law to clearly define it and provisions be incorporated for punishment, which should not be less than seven years and…
CHANDIGARH: A “victim’s absolutely normal mental state” after an alleged Pocso case offence raises serious doubts about the credibility of allegations, Punjab and Haryana High Court said in a recent order while suspending the five-year sentence of a teacher convicted of molesting a student. HC noted the Class VIII student attended a PTM with her…
