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Topic: POCSO

Allahabad HC saying forced oral sex ‘less serious’ shows obsession with brutality in sexual offences

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

‘Raped & murdered’ Delhi teen’s family was kept away from her, nearly duped into cremation

The 13-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped and killed by a relative of their landlord in Gurugram, whose home she was visiting.  

Parliament panel not to push for lowering age limit to 16 years for juveniles in POCSO cases

The decision came from the parliamentary panel in response to the government asserting that existing laws are adequate to deal with juveniles committing heinous crimes.

Watching, publishing, sharing pornography: What is a crime in India and what isn’t

Actor Shilpa Shetty’s husband Raj Kundra has been arrested for allegedly being a ‘key conspirator’ in a case pertaining to pornographic films. Here’s what the laws say.

I am a sexual abuse survivor. No, I am not a woman

Male sexual abuse in India is an epidemic. But we still don’t want to talk about it.

POCSO court denies bail to man saying child knows ‘good touch bad touch’

Special judge Bharati Kale, while rejecting the bail plea of the accused, said the victim has categorically stated that the applicant touched her and 'she felt it was a bad touch'.

‘I am neither a boy nor girl’ – Delhi minor says he was ‘forced’ to undergo sex change, raped

Two among the five accused have been apprehended by the police. The minor boy also said he was pushed into begging and prostitution in Delhi.

Why even 1,023 new fast track courts for rape and POCSO cases won’t be enough

An amount of Rs 767 crore has been approved under the centrally sponsored scheme to develop infrastructural facilities for Indian Judiciary for 2020-21.

5-year-old girl raped in embassy quarters in Delhi’s Chanakyapuri

The Delhi Police has arrested a 25-year-old driver who lived in the embassy quarters with his parents after a complaint was lodged by the girl's family.

Kovind says rape convicts charged under POCSO shouldn’t be allowed to file mercy plea

President Kovind said the demonic attacks on women shake the conscience of the country.

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Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.