POCSO Act

Chennai: More than five months after an eight-year-old girl walking home was intercepted, dragged into a grove and raped by a 35-year-old guest worker, a special court for Pocso Act cases found him guilty of the offence, and imposed double imprisonment on the man.Investigation had initially hit a dead-end, as police could gather only a grainy image of the suspect — Kale Biswakarma from Dibrugarh in...

THANE: The Thane court on Friday convicted and sentenced a 31-year-old man to ten years rigorous imprisonment for sexually abusing his daughter aged-six in 2017. The minor girl testified against her father in the court that nailed him.The accused was into furniture making work and resided with his wife and daughter. According to the prosecution, Sandhya H Mhatre the accused had on December 02, 2017...

CHENNAI: A sub-inspector of police, who had voluntarily retired from service recently, was arrested for sexually abusing a Class IX student at Royapuram. The retired SI, Jebakumar, 55, resides in an apartment complex in Royapuram. On Thursday, a 14-year-old girl living nearby informed her parents that Jebakumar had been sexually abusing her at a park in the neighbourhood.Acting on a complaint filed by...

THANE: A Bhiwandi-resident was acquitted by a special POCSO court in Maharashtra's Thane in a rape case. The 28-year-old man was accused of abducting a Class IX girl on July 30, 2013 and raping her at his sister's house for three days. As per the prosecution, he had raped the victim in the houses of his kin in Bhiwandi and Shahapur as well. Her father filed a complaint with Padga police station in...