Trivial corrective measures used to keep order in a classroom do not call for criminal action unless they are inflicted with mala fide intent, the Kerala High Court has held, ending a case over a pulled hand. Kochi: A school teacher accused of corporal punishment will not face trial. The Kerala High Court has quashed […]
At the Supreme Court’s National Annual Stakeholders Consultation marking ten years of the Juvenile Justice Act, CJI Surya Kant proposed a separate wing of trained defence lawyers for children, while Justice BV Nagarathna said the Act remains largely on paper and flagged 55% pendency before Juvenile Justice Boards.
The Telangana High Court has upheld the cancellation of a candidate’s provisional selection as a police constable trainee over a murder case in which he was tried and acquitted as a juvenile, holding that the fresh start principle under the Juvenile Justice Act yields to special circumstances and the offence involved moral turpitude.
A parent facing prosecution under the POCSO Act cannot be considered entitled to the custody of the children, the Supreme Court held, staying a Delhi High Court order that had given a father sole custody, and permitting the mother to relocate the two minor children to the United Kingdom for their schooling. New Delhi: The […]
A Delhi court has issued notice to the Delhi Police and sought a status report on a plea under Section 175(3) BNSS seeking the registration of an FIR against a minor CJP protester and her father over allegedly communal social-media posts. The allegations are untested, no FIR has been ordered, and, the accused being a minor, any proceeding would fall under the juvenile-justice framework. The matter is listed in January 2027.
A couple who had raised a child from days after his premature birth, under a notarised adoption deed, lost his custody when they approached the Child Welfare Committee to regularise the adoption for school admission. The Calcutta High Court held that the CWC has no jurisdiction over a child who is neither an orphan nor abandoned nor in need of care and protection, and directed the child returned to the couple, subject to their obtaining a proper court declaration and quarterly welfare monitoring.
The Supreme Court reduced a man’s 20-year POCSO sentence to 10 years, holding that the victim’s age was not proved to the strict standard the law requires, so the child-specific offence could not stand, but confirming that the rape itself was conclusively established and convicting him under Section 376 IPC instead. New Delhi: The Supreme […]
