Children should be protected from sexual offences and the Cabinet has approved amendments to various sections of the POCSO Act, said union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
New Delhi: The government has approved amendments to the POCSO Act and introduced stringent measures to check circulation of child pornography and administration of hormones to children to attain early sexual maturity.
Briefing reporters, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said children should be protected from sexual offences and the Cabinet has approved amendments to various sections of The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
“This is a wholesome initiative whereby the entire POCSO architecture is not only strengthened but also enlarged so that artificial medicines or hormones could not be abused to kill the childliness of a child,” he said.
An unfortunate thing was going on in the country – that children were being administered hormones to make them artificially majors, he said.
The related provision of the POCSO Act — Section 9 — has been made more stringent, the minister said.-PTI
… minor Dalit girl …
Our laws are perfection itself. It is in their implementation that things begin to unravel. The aminos Dalit girl who was violated by MLA Sengar had the mortification of seeing her father beaten to death. Now an FIR has been lodged against her. As per the letter of the Atrocities Act – in which the reasonable safeguards mandated by the apex court have been nullified by an Ordinance – her first complaint to the police ought to have led to Sengar’s arrest and denial of bail.