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Pakistan forms panel to probe 'harassment' charges against former NAB chie
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 24 (ANI): Pakistan government has constituted an inquiry commission to probe into the sexual offence against former National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal, according to local media.
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Kerala HC dismisses bail plea of fake antique dealer Monson Mavunkal in se
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], July 14 (ANI): The Kerala High Court dismissed the bail plea of fake antique dealer Monson Mavunkal in sexual assault cases registered against him, which include a Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) case.
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Bombay HC grants bail to POCSO accused, says kissing prima facie not unnat
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 15 (ANI): The Bombay High Court has observed that kissing would not prima facie constitute offence under section 377 (unnatural sex) of the Indian Penal Code while granting bail to an accused of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
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Maulvi molests 8-yr-old girl on pretext of giving chocolates, gets arreste
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Palghar (Maharashtra) [India], March 28 (ANI): After a 10-year-old girl was abducted and molested, the local Police arrested a maulvi on charges of sexually abusing the girl child, said a police official on Monday.
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Speech impaired minor boy sexually assaulted, murdered in Pune
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], March 25 (ANI): A 16-year-old speech impaired boy was found murdered after suffering sexual assault near the Kothrud area here on Friday night, informed the local police.
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Rape of six-year-old Dalit girl: Araria court delivers judgement within 15
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Araria (Bihar) [India], January 29 (ANI): Setting a new example of speedy justice, an Araria court sentenced Mohammed Major, 48, to death for sexually assaulting a six-year-old Dalit girl within 15 days of filing the chargesheet. There were only three hearings in the case.
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Uttar Pradesh: Rapist gets capital punishment
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Fatehpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 18 (ANI): A Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) court awarded death sentence to a person for raping and killing a three-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh's Fatehpur.
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Law does not consider sexual assault by loved one as rape, Amicus argues i
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 12(ANI): Amicus Curiae Rajshekhar Rao on Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that the law does not consider it as rape when a woman is sexually assaulted by her loved one but the same is considered a sexual offence when a stranger forces himself on her.
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British-Pakistani Lord Nazir Ahmed found guilty of child sex offences
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
London [UK], January 6 (ANI): Lord Nazir Ahmed, the former Labour peer has been found guilty by the Sheffield Crown Court in the United Kingdom of sexual offences against two children in the 1970s, Pakistani media has reported.
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SC's Juvenile Justice Committee organises National Consultations for prote
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 21 (ANI): The Supreme Court's Juvenile Justice Committee (SCJJC) organised National Consultations for the protection of children in India and to take stock of the implementation of the Juvenile Justice Act and the Prevention of Sexual Offences Act, said a statemen
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Delhi court grants bail to army personnel in POCSO case
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 6 (ANI): A Delhi Court on Monday has granted bail to army personnel accused under charges of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO).
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Man booked for sexually assaulting a minor labourer in Shimla
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], November 25 (ANI): A man has been booked by the Shimla Police under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act for allegedly sexually assaulting a 17-year-old migrant labourer in the Boileau
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