In this special report, India Today's Legal Editor Nalini Sharma explains the legal intricacies behind the Delhi High Court's ...
The Delhi High Court had held that an MLA was not covered under the definition of a public servant in the POCSO Act. The ...
On this special report, a women's rights activist discusses a significant Supreme Court verdict delivered on the anniversary ...
The Bombay High Court has rapped the Kandivali Police on the knuckles for starting a POCSO case against a 15-year-old on the basis of a few messages she sent to a classmate. The teenager allegedly ...
Quashing criminal proceedings under the POCSO Act, the Allahabad High Court has observed that forcing a happily-married couple to face trial merely to record a hostile testimony would be an "irony of ...
Having spent eight years in prison after being arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a girl, a 56-year-old man has been acquitted by the trial court citing “scanty evidence”. The statement of the ...
In a first, more child sexual abuse cases in a year were disposed of than registered in India, marking a tipping point in tackling the long-standing judicial backlog under the Protection of Children ...