protection of children from sexual offences (pocso) act

Thiruvananthapuram, April 11 – A political storm has erupted in Kerala over the marriage of teenage girl Monalisa Bhosle, who gained public attention after the Kumbh Mela, with the Kerala branch of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday accusing CPI-M leaders of complicity and demanding...

Pune, April 9 A case has been registered against three police personnel from Pune, including a female constable who is also a social media influencer, for allegedly extorting ₹7 lakh from the principal of a polytechnic college by threatening to implicate him in a false case, officials said on...

Panaji, April 1 AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday alleged that the BJP and the entire state machinery in Goa are trying to protect the party councillor's son, who was arrested for allegedly raping several girls and circulating their obscene videos.Addressing a public meeting in the...

Panaji, March 28 Goa Congress chief Amit Patkar on Saturday claimed that the sex scandal in which the son of a councilor is an accused involves more than 100 minor victims, and that the police were initially reluctant to register a case.Soham (20), son of Sushant Naik, a member of Curchorem...

Panaji, March 28 Goa Congress chief Amit Patkar on Saturday claimed that the sex scandal involving the son of a councilor involves more than 100 minor victims, and that the police were initially reluctant to register a case.Soham (20), son of Sushant Naik, a member of the Curchorem Municipal...

New Delhi, March 26 – Spiritual leader Ashutosh Brahmachari Maharaj has moved the Supreme Court, challenging the anticipatory bail granted by the Allahabad High Court to Jyotish Peeth Shankaracharya Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati and his disciple Mukundanand Giri in connection with a...

Mumbai, March 25 The Maharashtra Legislative Council unanimously passed the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (Maharashtra Amendment) Bill 2026 on Wednesday to include provisions in the Shakti Bill to protect the identities of acid attack victims and ensure imprisonment for online sexual advances.The...

Thane, March 24 Police have registered a case against a 58-year-old man for allegedly raping a 10-year-old girl in Thane district, Maharashtra, officials said on Tuesday.The accused is alleged to have committed the crime between December 2023 and February of this year, after luring the victim...

Lucknow, March 12 Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav met spiritual leader Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati on Thursday and sought his blessings, saying it would bring an end to "fake saints".After meeting the seer, Yadav said he had come to seek the Shankaracharya's blessings and wisdom.Asked...

Bhandara, March 11 A 54-year-old teacher at a school run by the Zilla Parishad (ZP) has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing female students in Classes 3 and 4 in Bhandara district of Maharashtra, police said on Wednesday.According to police, the incidents of sexual abuse took place...

Guwahati, March 7 A man has been arrested for allegedly raping a four-and-a-half-year-old girl in the Cachar district of Assam, police said on Saturday.A complaint was filed by the child's family on Friday, alleging that the accused, who is 26 years old, entered their residence while they were...

Nashik, March 5 Seven Class X students at a hostel run by the Maharashtra social welfare department in Igatpuri, Nashik, have been booked for allegedly sexually abusing some of their younger students, an official said on Thursday.The superintendent of the hostel has also been booked in the...

New Delhi, March 4 A 51-year-old man from North West Delhi has alleged that over 10 Delhi Police personnel "forcibly took away" his 13-year-old daughter on Tuesday, claiming that the action was in "blatant violation" of the law and "exceeded" the directions issued by a family court in a child...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 4 A Kerala court has sentenced a man to a cumulative 18 years in prison for repeatedly sexually assaulting a minor girl while tutoring her 11 years ago.The incident came to light in 2024 when the victim was a medical student and recognized someone resembling the...

Thane, March 4 A 23-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly sexually harassing and extorting Rs 50,000 from a 15-year-old schoolgirl over six months in Thane city, police said on Wednesday.The accused, Prathamesh Desai, a resident of Lokmanya Nagar, was taken into custody following a...

Patna, March 2 – A Special CBI Court in Patna on Monday rejected the bail plea of Manish Ranjan, the owner of the Shambhu Girls Hostel building, in connection with the death of a NEET aspirant in the Bihar capital.The hearing lasted for nearly two and a half hours, during which a heated...

Lucknow/Ballia (UP), February 27 Opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh welcomed the Allahabad High Court's decision to stay the arrest of Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati."This stay by the court is a fitting response to the attempts being made to target Pujya Shankaracharya with malice and...

Dhar (MP), February 27 A 17-year-old student gave birth to a premature baby boy in a school washroom during a Class 10 board examination in Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district, officials said on Friday.The incident occurred on Tuesday at a private school in Pithampur during a Mathematics paper...

Dhar (MP), February 27 A 17-year-old girl, who was taking her Class 10 board examination, gave birth to a premature baby in the washroom of a private school in Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh, revealing a case of sexual assault.Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Parul Belapurkar said on...

Idukki (Kerala), February 27 A 25-year-old man has been sentenced by a Kerala court to a cumulative 30 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl at a theatre in Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu, in 2022, after luring her there with the promise of a job.Idukki Painav Fast Track Court Judge...