![]() | Delhi cops say probe against WFI chief on as support for wrestlers growsSingh is facing two cases of sexual harassment, one of them on a complaint by a minor, under the POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act. |
![]() | Minor girl marries cousin; case filed under POCSO ActIn January this year, the couple moved to Delhi and since then they had been living in a rented accommodation at West Jawahar Park, Delhi. |
![]() | Ayodhya student falls off school roof, parents claim foul playThe parents alleged that the body of their daughter bore several injury marks on her hands, feet and hips. |
![]() | Class 10 student falls to death in UP school; father claims principal asked her to come during vacationAccording to the parents, the victim was called to school by the principal regarding an article for the school magazine even as the school was shut for summer vacations on Friday morning. |
![]() | Tokyo Olympics champion Kawai comes out in support of protesting Indian wrestlersKawai, who won the 57kg women's freestyle gold in Tokyo, is the first high-profile international wrestler to come out in support of the protesting Indian wrestlers. |
![]() | Delhi Court awards life sentence to Ravinder Kumar for rape, murder of 6-year-old girlThe judge said the crime was no less than an "act of a predator" and it has shaken the conscience of the society. |
![]() | Newborn dumped, 17-year-old mom held in VijayawadaAccording to Penamaluru police, the minor girl, While writing the exam, reportedly suffered labour and went to the toilet, where she gave birth to a boy. |
![]() | 13-year-old Dalit girl gang-raped in UP's AmethiAmethi Superintendent of Police Elamaran G said the girl's father filed a complaint accusing one Waris (20), who lives in his village, and an unidentified man of abducting and raping his daughter. |
![]() | Doctor booked under Pocso Act in VarkalaAs per the complaint, the doctor touched the girl’s private body parts during the medical examination. The girl revealed this to her mother when they reached home. |
![]() | Chennai: Man arrested under Pocso for harassing daughterThe 38-year-old accused was arrested at the Delhi Airport when he entered the country from the US. |
![]() | Gujarat court awards death sentence to man for killing minor girl by stabbing her 34 timesThe convict has been given a month's time to make an appeal in the high court. |
![]() | AIADMK cadre accused of sexual assault on minor ousted“A 15-year-old girl went to meet AIADMK’s Paramakudi town functionary Sigamani for some financial help in December last year. |
![]() | Pocso for Assam men marrying girls under 14Those who would marry girls aged between 14 and 18 years would be dealt with under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, the CM added. |
![]() | Jail term can’t be reduced under POCSO Act: Karnataka HCStrikes down special court’s order in a 2015 case that reduced imprisonment to five years instead of seven |
![]() | Kodagu school teacher booked under POCSO ActThe accused, Manohar Naik, is suspected to be absconding even as special police teams have been formed to arrest him. |
![]() | Class 12 girl gets pregnant, student bookedA Class 12 student was booked under the POCSO Act for impregnating a 17-year-old girl. |
![]() | Two held for raping teenager, burning her body with cigarette butts in UPThe 15-year-old had gone to fetch water from a hand pump on Friday night, when the accused forcibly took her to a hut in the village and allegedly raped her. |
![]() | Private school teacher held under POCSO ActA 26-year-old physical education teacher was arrested under POCSO Act for allegedly raping a 17-year-old student. |
![]() | HC's bail to man booked for abusing minors cancelledThe Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court cancelled bail granted to an accused who was charged of sexually abusing two minor girls in Thoothukudi. |
![]() | POCSO Act: Death penalty will be futile, says former Delhi HC Chief Justice ShahShah, along with other child rights activists and lawyers expressed their dissatisfaction over the recent ordinance to amend the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. |
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