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Time of India
6 days ago
- Time of India
Man promises to marry girl, rapes her, gets booked
Ludhiana: A man has been booked for raping a girl, a minor, on the pretext of marrying her. The girl told the cops that they met, became friends and would often talk on the phone and on social media. In 2022, she said the accused started calling her home. He would reportedly tell her that if she didn't come, he would slash his wrist and kill himself. On his insistence, she went to his house to meet him in March that year. He forcibly took her inside a room and sexually assaulted her, she alleged. Police said after a minor dispute, the accused allegedly sent objectionable pictures of himself and the girl to her family. This outraged her family, and they lodged a police complaint. A DSP-level officer investigated the matter. The accused was booked under IPC sections 376 (rape) and 506 (criminal intimidation) and the Pocso Act. tnn
Time of India
09-05-2025
- Time of India
2 get life in jail for gang rape of 6-yr-old girl in Bijnor
Meerut: A Pocso court in Bijnor has sentenced two men to life imprisonment for gang-raping a six-year-old girl in a village shop last year. Judge Kalpana Pandey also imposed a fine of ₹50,000 on each of the pronouncing the verdict on Thursday, the court observed: "A woman's honour is everything to her, and if she is raped, the crime not only defiles the body but also scars her soul. .. Physical wounds heal, but the stigma of a heinous crime like rape continues to give mental torture to the victim throughout her life."The crime took place on Nov 7, 2024, when the child accompanied her mother to a market. While the woman briefly stepped away to a neighbour's house to mark her MNREGA attendance, three men from their village lured the child with candies and gang-raped her inside a returning, the mother found her daughter bleeding profusely. An FIR was registered against the three men under BNS section 70(2) (gang rape with a woman under 18 years) and section 6 of the Pocso Act."A total of seven witnesses testified. The child's statement, medical report and eyewitness' accounts played a key role in the conviction," said special public prosecutor Bhalendra convicts, in their early 20s, pleaded for leniency, but the court rejected their appeal, citing the brutality of the crime. "This act will leave lifelong scars on the child's mind," Rathore said. The trial against the third accused is still on.
India Today
30-04-2025
- India Today
Marriage no defence for intercourse with minor under Pocso Act: Madras High Court
The Madras High Court sentenced a 22-year-old man to ten years of imprisonment under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act for having sexual intercourse with a 17-year-old girl, who, during the course of the trial, became his a strongly worded ruling, the High Court said, 'The Pocso Act is very clear that there is no question of consent before 18 years of age.' The bench added that 'the accused's subsequent marriage to the victim does not absolve the offence committed when she was a child. Accepting such a defence would undermine the very purpose of the Pocso Act.'advertisementThe man and the girl were neighbours who reportedly fell in love. When her parents came to know about the relationship, a quarrel broke out between the two families. The girl's parents subsequently arranged for her marriage to another person. Opposed to the arranged marriage, the girl approached the accused and they fled to Mysuru, Karnataka, where they stayed at a relative's house for a few days. After learning that the girl's parents had filed a missing person's complaint, the couple returned to their a statement previously recorded by a woman police officer, the girl stated that the accused had sexual intercourse with her. The high court, noting that she was a minor at the time of the incident, said there could be no consideration of consent or elopement as she was legally a child under the definition provided in the Pocso court concluded that such offences must be treated not merely as crimes against an individual, but as crimes against society. IN THIS STORY#Tamil Nadu
