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NCW moves SC against Bombay High Court's 'skin to skin' judgement
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 4 (ANI): The National Commission for Women (NCW) has filed a Special Leave Petition (SLP) before the Supreme Court against the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court verdict which ruled 'skin-to-skin' contact is necessary for the offence of 'sexual assault' under t
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Injustice meted out, says Rahul Gandhi on Bombay HC 'skin-to-skin order'
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 30 (ANI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi reacted over the Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court order where it had acquitted an accused saying that groping a minor's breast without "skin to skin contact" cannot be termed as sexual assault as defined under the Protecti
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Holding hands of minor, opening pant zip not sexual assault under POCSO: B
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], January 28 (ANI): Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court has held that the act of holding the hands of a minor or unzip the pant of the accused does not amount to sexual assault under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
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SC stays Bombay HC 'skin-to-skin order' for acquittal of POCSO accused
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 27 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the order of the Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court where it had acquitted an accused saying that groping a minor's breast without "skin to skin contact" cannot be termed as sexual assault as defined under the Protecti
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'The Fast and the Furious' director Rob Cohen accused of sexual assault by
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], January 25 (ANI): Actor Asia Argento has accused American director Rob Cohen of 'The Fast and the Furious' fame of allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting her in the past.
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Groping child without skin to skin contact does not constitute sexual assa
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], January 25 (ANI): The Bombay High Court acquitted an appellant under the POCSO Act ruling that pressing of the breast of a child without "skin to skin contact with sexual intent" does not constitute "sexual assault" under the Protection of Children from Sexua
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Would TN govt have arrested AIADMK functionaries? DMK's Kanimozhi after CB
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], January 6 (ANI): Following arrest of the secretary of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's (AIADMK) Pollachi Town students' wing in connection with a sexual assault case, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MP Kanimozhi on Wednesday asked if the judicial actio
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Tamil Nadu: CBI arrests 3 more in Pollachi sexual assault case
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], January 6 (ANI): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested three more people in connection with the Pollachi sexual assault case, including All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's (AIADMK) Pollachi Town students' wing secretary.
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Teacher arrested for sexual assault of five minor girls in Telangana's Bha
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Bhadradri Kothagudem (Telangana) [India], December 17 (ANI): A teacher has been arrested for alleged sexual assault of five minor girls at a school in Bhadradri Kothagudem.
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#DNAFightsRape Stirs Youth Power, Students of Manipal University Voice The
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 25 (ANI/BusinessWire India): As violence against women and girls intensifies in the aftermath of COVID-19, students from Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) came together to create a musical composition urging citizens to ensure justice and build a safer In
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Mother, daughter sexually assaulted in Pakistan's Faisalabad
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 9 (ANI): In another incident of growing lawlessness in Pakistan, police has after a delay of 15 days lodged a case against two suspects on Sunday for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman and her daughter at gunpoint in Faisalabad's Sadar Jaranwala area.
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Man beaten to death in UP's Deoria for protesting daughter's molestation
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Deoria (Uttar Pradesh), November 7 (ANI): In a shocking incident, at a village in Deoria district in Uttar Pradesh, a man who had protested the sexual assault of his daughter was beaten to death with sticks and baton allegedly by his neighbour. Police filed a case against half a dozen people
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