Protection Of Children From Sexual Offences Act

Muzaffarpur shelter home case: Brajesh Thakur, 11 others sentenced to life imprisonment by Delhi's Saket district court

CBI on 4 February sought life imprisonment for Thakur, saying 'rape is a crime of lust, power' and leniency should not be shown to convicts as victims in case were minors

RS panel calls for making monitoring apps mandatory on all devices to contain child pornography, demands amendment of POCSO and IT Acts

The report was presented to Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu by the panel chief and Congress parliamentarian Jairam Ramesh

109 children sexually abused every day in India in 2018, says NCRB data; 22 percent jump in such cases from 2017

Highest number of child rapes were recorded in Maharashtra followed by Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu

Om Prakash Gupta, personal assistant to ex-Chhattisgarh CM Raman Singh, charged for rape of minor under POSCO Act

Om Prakash Gupta was arrested in the early hours of Thursday based on a complaint lodged by the 16-year-old victim at women's police station

NCRB data 2017: Absence of specificity about atrocities against disabled women further invisibilises them

The absence of concrete and categorised data of crimes against women with disabilities in the latest NCRB report puts inclusion efforts one step back. This at a time when stigma associated with disability and sexuality and the lack of legal literacy makes the chances of a crime being reported even bleaker

Unnao Rape case: CBI says survivor kidnapped, sexually assaulted for nine days by three people at different places in 2017

The Unnao rape survivor was allegedly kidnapped and raped for nine days at different places by three people in 2017 when she was a minor, the CBI told a Delhi court on Friday.

Seven-yr-old gangraped in Maharashtra's Thane district; three booked under POCSO and IPC, say cops

A seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped by three men in a dilapidated building near her school in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Monday.

Three tweens rape six-year-old girl schoolmate in Chhattisgarh's Raipur; parents of survivor file case with police after school remains unresponsive

A class one student of a government school in Chattisgarh's capital Raipur was raped allegedly by three 10-year-old schoolmates.

Minor girl in Mumbai’s Mankhurd files complaint against relatives charging them of forced prostitution, assault; police arrests five

Case has been registered under various sections of the IPC for rape and unnatural offences, including POCSO Act, PITA and Child Marriage Prevention Act

RS passes bill amending POCSO Act: A look back at case of Dhananjoy Chatterjee, last murderer-rapist to be hanged in country

The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill, 2019 was passed in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.