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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
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Topic: POCSO

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.

Child rights body doesn’t have any data on sexual abuse cases, SC registrar tells court

S.S. Rathi, tasked with digging up data on child sex abuse cases, said NCPCR had not collected any ‘useworthy’ data since POCSO Act took effect in 2012.

5-year-old girl wasn’t ravished, says Mumbai court which disposed of sexual assault case

The court acquitted two accused, including a French national, saying that evidence of the victim is unreliable.

Lapses by child welfare body blamed for sexual abuse of 13-yr-old girl by foster father in Assam

The 13-year-old was placed with the foster family in May 2018, but is now in a shelter.

Rape victims being treated as ‘untouchables’, don’t disclose identities: SC

Court directs media not to reveal identity of victims of rape and sexual assault 'even in a remote manner', tells police not to put...

PMO asks Women & Child ministry to examine demand for chemical castration of child rapists

Women lawyers had written to the PMO saying chemical castration of child rapists in the rarest of rare cases is the need of the hour besides death penalty.

Death penalty is not justice, it is revenge

Even if a rapist is sentenced to death, men will not stop raping. They will only stop when they learn to stop regarding women as sexual objects

TalkPoint: Does Asaram’s conviction show that ‘godmen’ cannot be above the law?

Five years after he was charged, Asaram has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Jodhpur Court for raping a minor. The self-proclaimed 'godman' and his followers have asserted his innocence repeatedly. Last year Dera Sacha Sauda chief, Ram Rahim, was also found guilty of rape. Experts weigh in.

The death penalty ordinance is yet another example of ‘lawlipop politics’

The new political formula is, if you can’t redress a grievance, feed the popular blood-thirst. If you can’t solve a problem, fool the people with yet another law.

On Camera

Why district judges almost never make it to India’s Supreme Court

Indian judiciary has a corrosive imbalance between the bar and the bench. Those who supervise the district judiciary do so without the lived experience that is essential for meaningful reform.

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.