Nagpur: A 19-year-old accused in a Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (Pocso) and kidnapping case allegedly died ...

Thane: In the Badlapur school van molestation case involving a four-year-old pre-primary child, the accused driver of the ...

India now runs 773 fast track special courts, 400 of them designated for POCSO cases, but even so, convictions and child ...

When the State Treats Young Love as a Sexual Crime What is a Romeo and Juliet Clause?A Romeo and Juliet provision is a ...

A Class 10 student in Bengaluru recently gave birth after a pregnancy that reportedly went unnoticed by her family until she ...

Acquitting Anil Gulgule of the offences under POCSO and section 354 (assault or criminal force to outrage the modesty of the ...

The apex court said the Centre should consider steps to curb the misuse of POCSO Act, including the idea of a 'Romeo-Juliet ...

The Statutory Framework and the Problem of Synthetic MinorsIn 2012, the parliament came up with gender-neutral legislation ...

The Communist Party of India (CPI) today demanded registration of a case under the POCSO Act against those responsible in the Shambhu Girls Hostel incident in Patna, a CBI inquiry into the matter and ...

The law was first introduced in the United States because there was concern that teenagers in consensual relationships were ...

Top court also held that high courts cannot order mandatory medical age determination of victims at the stage of bail in ...

The POCSO Act, a statute designed to shield against predatory violence, has been subverted into enforcing parental authority and traditional social boundaries ...