Sexual Offences Act

The Allahabad High Court...

The Allahabad High Court...

A single-judge bench of Allahabad High Court while hearing a Criminal Appeal filed by Krishnakant acquitted the accused who was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment and fine under the misdemeanor POCSO Act and SC/ST Act in Kamasin police station area of Banda district.

The Allahabad High Court has granted conditional bail to Sonu Kumar, a resident of Narhi Police Station, Ballia, who is accused of kidnapping minor girls.

Attorney General KK Venugopal on Tuesday strongly objected to the judgement passed by the Bombay High Court, which held 'skin-to-skin' contact is necessary to constitute sexual assault under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court made the above observation recently while dismissing a bail Petition of a man accused of committing unnatural sex with an 8-year-old child.

Dinesh Tiwari appearing as a counsel for the applicants claimed that allegations against his clients are baseless with different inconsistencies in the evidence of witnesses and material omissions.

Krishna Murti filed the appeal challenging the Judgement of a trial court in which he has been convicted under section 363 IPC with section 8 of the POSCO act.

The Delhi High Court allowed bail to a rape accused under section 376 AB of IPC and Section 6 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 over the ground that there is a delay of 8 hours in the registration of FIR.

The Court noted that the inconsistencies in the victim's statement to the police, and it would be highly unsafe to convict the appellant solely on the basis of the testimony of the victim.