The hearing also revisited alleged investigative failures, including delayed registration of rape and POCSO charges, forensic shortcomings and claims that the victim's family faced intimidation after the incident.
On 8 June, the Supreme Court of India set aside the POCSO conviction of Tamil Nadu resident Maruthupandi.
The Koodal Police in Kerala's Pathanamthitta district have registered two First Information Reports (FIRs) under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) following a complaint from a 13-year-old Class IX female student of a school in the district that she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by her classmates.
An Additional Sessions Judge-cum-Special Judge at Paralakhemundi in Odisha's Gajapati district on Tuesday sentenced a man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) for raping a minor girl after allegedly forcing her to consume a soft drink laced with an intoxicating substance.
An 11-year-old girl sleeping on a Mehrauli pavement with her family was abducted, raped, and murdered early Monday. Delhi Police arrested the cab driver accused of the crime within six hours.
A 16-year-old minor rape survivor attempted suicide by consuming poison in the court premises in Kendrapara on Friday, police officials said.
In a major twist to the 2017 sensational Walayar rape case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), in the supplementary chargesheet, arraigned the parents of two minor victims of rape in the chargesheet filed on Thursday at the Ernakulam CBI court.
Baruipur Court today sentenced the alleged rape and murder accused, who was convicted by the judge of Baruipur POCSO court on Thursday, was today sentenced to death.
The Court announced the judgment within 62 days after the incident took place at Joynagar.
Kolkata Police, on Thursday, said that cops of Charu Market Police Station in South Kolkata have arrested renowned Bengali musician Sanjay Chakraborty from Mumbai on charges of molesting one of his minor students.
