Goa Police said two girls recorded their complaints against Soham Naik, son of Goa's Curchorem Cacora MLC Sushant Naik. They are waiting for more survivors to come forward.
Bench led by CJI Surya Kant also pulled up Child Welfare Committee (CWC)—which had wanted girl's parents to produce her before them—raised questions over qualification of its members.
A POCSO court sentenced a couple to death for abusing 33 minor boys, saying they lured children from poor families with money and gadgets, and shared explicit videos, photos online.
Special court acquitted cabinet minister Atanasio ‘Babush’ Monserrate after complainant retracted initial testimony and said complaints she had filed were a 'figment of imagination'.
Disposal rate in 2025 reached 109 percent, meaning the courts cleared backlog of previous years. However, conviction rate has been reducing since 2019. System also struggling with delays.
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.
Sessions court relied on Supreme Court ruling in Bhanei Prasad Raju vs State of Himachal Pradesh case, emphasising the irreparable nature of breach of trust in 'incestuous cases'.
Top court sought apology from YouTuber Suraj Palakaran, hearing his plea for quashing of criminal proceedings for disclosing identity of a child involved in POCSO case in a video.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
In UP, police would have dispensed justice instantly. He is lucky to be in MP where the court found him “innocent”.
We all know well enough how innocent he is.
Muslims from UP are causing trouble in all nearby states. Be it Uttarakhand or Madhya Pradesh or Haryana, it is the migrant Muslim from UP who is fomenting trouble.
Ever since Yogi assumed power in UP, there has been a marked increase in Muslims shifting to other states and settling down there. The worst affected is Uttarakhand. It has witnessed a sharp change in demography with a dramatic increase in the Muslim population.
Such demographic shifts are resulting in frequent conflicts between communities.
In UP, police would have dispensed justice instantly. He is lucky to be in MP where the court found him “innocent”.
We all know well enough how innocent he is.
Muslims from UP are causing trouble in all nearby states. Be it Uttarakhand or Madhya Pradesh or Haryana, it is the migrant Muslim from UP who is fomenting trouble.
Ever since Yogi assumed power in UP, there has been a marked increase in Muslims shifting to other states and settling down there. The worst affected is Uttarakhand. It has witnessed a sharp change in demography with a dramatic increase in the Muslim population.
Such demographic shifts are resulting in frequent conflicts between communities.
out there are so many similar cases where innocents are lying in jails or are booked having pending trials with courts. many in delhi riots too