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: A wife is not her husband's property that she has to seek permission for whatever she does, the Calcutta High Court said in an order. The HC also turned down a divorce plea on the grounds of cruelty after a man accused his wife of selling off a property in her name without consulting him. The HC said, "The wife cannot be regarded as the property of the husband nor is she expected to seek...
KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday asked the court-appointed special officer in the St Augustine's Day School case to submit in a sealed cover detailing the attempts to bribe him, along with the details of the person who did it, for the court to take criminal action. The officer had been appointed to determine the number of students of the school who have been pushed to uncertainty ahead of...
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