Important cases heard in Delhi High Court on Monday, August 12: * HC granted interim protection from arrest till August 21 to former IAS probationer Puja Khedkar, who has been accused of cheating and wrongly availing OBC and disability quota benefits.
* HC agreed to hear a plea challenging the exclusion of any provision in the new penal law, Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS), relating to punishment for the offence of ‘unnatural sex’ and ‘sodomy’.
* HC refused to entertain a petition seeking directions to the authorities to reframe the guidelines for coaching institutes with criminal liability.
* HC asked the MCD to hand over one of its buildings of nursing college and hostel to the Department of Social Welfare to shift residents of the city government-run Asha Kiran shelter home, saying the space was urgently required.
* HC held that a female can face criminal proceedings for committing the offence of “penetrative sexual assault” on a child under the POCSO Act and that the offence is not restricted to male offenders only. PTI SKV ADS DIV DIV
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