sexual assault

The Telangana High Court...

Vikas has challenged the Delhi High Court order wherein his regular bail was dismissed. The petitioner is charged for the offence under sections 376B, 342 IPC and section 6 read with section 5(m) of the POCSO Act.

The Delhi High Court has increased the sum of compensation to Rs one lakh in a case of child abuse. The single-judge bench of Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani passed the directions in a Writ Petition filed by the petitioner

The Petition said that the case of the prosecution is that the Petitioner committed sexual assault on the victim girl and thereby she became pregnant.

The bench while disposing of the petition quashed the FIR and all other proceedings arising therefrom.

The Supreme Court today issued notice in a plea filed by National commission for Women (NCW) challenging the Bombay HC judgment passed by Justice Pushpa Ganediwala, wherein she held that there must be “skin to skin contact with sexual intent” for an act to be considered sexual assault.

The Delhi High court has upheld the order of trial court for convicting a man for the commission of aggravated gang penetrative sexual assault upon a 13-year-old minor child.

After an uproar over two controversial judgments regarding sexual assault on children, the Court’s collegium halted the promotion of a woman judge who presided over the cases.

Attorney General K.K. Venugopal brought to the courts notice a judgment of the Bombay HC in which the Court acquitted the accused under Section 8 of the POCSO act on the ground that there was no direct skin-to-skin contact.

"The purpose of rehabilitative sentencing is to reform the offender as a person so that he may become a normal law-abiding member of the community once again."