KOLKATA: Charges under Pocso (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act result in "automatic criminalisation", the Calcutta High Court said on Wednesday even as it acquitted a man who was a minor when he entered into a relationship with a girl younger to him. The two later married and now have a child.Stating that the Pocso Act does not consider normal sexual behaviour among adolescents and...
KOLKATA: Charges under the Pocso (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act result in "automatic criminalisation", the Calcutta high court said on Wednesday even as it acquitted a man who was a minor when he entered into a relationship with a girl younger than him. The HC, which noticed during the hearing the constant presence of a woman and a baby, was told she was the survivor in the case and...
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