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New Indian Express
21-06-2025
- New Indian Express
POCSO-accused tribal youth gets Madhya Pradesh HC reprieve
BHOPAL: The MP High Court has commuted the death penalty of a 20-year-old tribal man convicted of rape in Khandwa district, reducing his sentence to 25 years of imprisonment. In 2023, a trial court had found him guilty of raping and attempting to murder a 4-year-old girl. Hearing the petition challenging the April 2023 Khandwa district's Protection of Children from Sexual Offence (POCSO) Act court's order rendering the youth death sentence, a two-judge bench of Justices Vivek Agrawal and Devnarayan Mishra held that though raping a four-year-old innocent child and strangling her and throwing her in a deserted place is a cruel act, considering the family background of the youth, the death sentence is not appropriate. 'Hence, the sentence imposed upon the appellant for the offence punishable under Sections 363, 450, 307, 201 of the Indian Penal Code is affirmed, but his sentence for the offence punishable under Sections 6 of the POCSO Act is converted from capital punishment to the rigorous imprisonment of 25 years with the fine amount of Rs 10,000…' 'Sentence not apt' The court said though raping a girl is cruel, considering the family background of the youth, the death sentence is not appropriate. 25 year RI & Rs 10,000 fine His sentence has been converted from capital punishment to an RI of 25 years with a fine of Rs 10,000.
The Hindu
10-06-2025
- The Hindu
School headmaster suspended over participation of POCSO case accused in school Praveshanolsavam
The manager of Fort High School has suspended school headmaster T.S. Pradeep Kumar from service pending an inquiry in the wake of participation of a Protection of Children from Sexual Offence (POCSO) case accused at the school Praveshanolsavam last week. The suspension order came into effect on Tuesday. The order said the incident hurt the reputation of the General Education department. A preliminary inquiry conducted by the Thiruvananthapuram deputy director of education had found that the headmaster's inattention had resulted in the participation of the POCSO case accused in the celebrations. As per the directions of the DDE, the headmaster had been temporarily suspended from service, it said. Senior Malayalam teacher R. Rajesh would discharge the responsibilities of the headmaster. Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty had on Monday said that the school manager had been directed to take action in the case.
Hindustan Times
25-05-2025
- Hindustan Times
20-year-old arrested for sexually assaulting toddler
The Sonepat police on Saturday arrested a 20-year-old Bachelor of Arts (second-year) student for allegedly sexually assaulting a two-and-a -half-year-old girl in a village in the district on Friday. In his complaint to Mohana police station in Sonepat, the girl's father said that his daughter had gone to play in the street outside the house and when she returned, there were blood stains on her leg. 'When her mother gave her a bath and cleaned the blood stains on leg, she found the girl's private part was bleeding. We rushed her to a community health centre in our village, from where she was referred to Bhagat Phool Singh Medical College for Women at Khanpur Kalan in Sonepat, where she is undergoing treatment,' he added. Gohana DCP Bharti Dabas, said that a team of the forensic science laboratory had visited the crime spot and collected blood samples. 'We have arrested a 20-year-old accused, who is a member of the victim's extended family. The girl used to go to the accused's house everyday to play. The accused confessed to his crime. A case has been registered under Section 6 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offence (POCSO) Act against the accused at Mohana police station,' the DCP added.
