At a time when courts are carving out exceptions on humanitarian grounds for 'consensual' relations between near-adult juveniles, Delhi HC has stuck to stricter interpretation of POCSO Act.
Commission suggests giving judiciary discretion to hand out reduced sentences. This comes when courts have been delivering conflicting rulings on sexual relationships involving minors.
The single-judge bench said 'nowadays girls & boys reaching puberty early', urges govt to consider reducing age of consent from 18 to 16 to avoid ‘injustice caused to adolescent boys’.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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