The DMK, through its Treasurer and MP T.R. Baalu, has moved the Madras High Court seeking a direction to the Special Investigation Team probing the POCSO case against Gem Granites’ R. Veeramani to summon Chief Minister Vijay and Ministers Aadhav Arjuna and C.T.R. Nirmal Kumar to give evidence, saying they publicly claimed to hold material about the party’s involvement but have not given it to the SIT.
The Karnataka High Court has quashed POCSO and IPC proceedings against a father, holding that no material supported the accusation and that the complaint followed a setback in custody proceedings, and has partly quashed a related dowry harassment case, sparing the husband’s parents but not the husband.
The Madras High Court has said it will hear a plea seeking a CBI probe into a POCSO case involving industrialist R Veeramani, known as Gem Granites Veeramani, who was arrested last month over the alleged sexual assault of minor girls. The senior counsel flagged that objectionable videos connected to the case were being broadcast by some media outlets in violation of the POCSO Act. Tamil Nadu has constituted a Special Investigation Team.
The Delhi High Court has declined to suspend the life sentence of a man convicted of the aggravated penetrative sexual assault of a child, while admitting his appeal. Considering the evidence, including the forensic material, the Court found it not a fit case to suspend the sentence at this stage, and directed the Legal Services Authority to hand the survivor the compensation awarded and a message written to her by the trial judge.
The Supreme Court has given the Union Government a last opportunity to file a report on the steps it has taken to give effect to the Court’s 2024 directions to curb child sexual abuse material online, after the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the Law Ministry failed to file their compliance reports. Terming the matter ‘extremely serious’, the Court directed the Ministries to explain what precautions they would take to prevent lapses by social media intermediaries.
The Delhi High Court has refused to quash a POCSO and rape case on the basis of a compromise stated to have been reached with the victim’s family, holding that a child victim or their family cannot compromise an offence under the POCSO Act. Relying on the Supreme Court’s decision in Gian Singh, Justice Sachin Datta held that heinous and serious sexual offences are not private in nature and cannot be quashed on settlement.
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 […]
Warning that false accusations of child sexual abuse levelled by one parent against the other in custody disputes are on the rise, the Supreme Court has laid down safeguards to prevent the misuse of the POCSO Act. Before coercive action is taken on such a complaint arising against a matrimonial backdrop, a Special Court should ordinarily obtain an expert psychological evaluation of the child. On the facts, the Court quashed a false case against a father and directed the child’s re-integration with him.
The Supreme Court has commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence imposed on a man convicted of raping and murdering a six-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh. A Bench of Justice Vikram Nath, Justice Sandeep Mehta and Justice Vijay Bishnoi upheld the conviction but held the case did not warrant the death penalty, applying the ‘rarest of rare’ framework. The detailed reasons are awaited with the judgment.
Upholding a life sentence for the rape of a child, the Patna High Court held that peripheral contradictions in a child victim’s testimony, explained by trauma and the natural limitations of a child witness, do not destroy the substratum of the prosecution case, while sharply criticising the perfunctory police investigation and ordering departmental action against […]