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»Good or Bad Touch? Bombay HC Order on Skin to Skin Groping in POCSO Case Raises Questions 5-MIN READ Good or Bad Touch? Bombay HC Order on Skin to Skin Groping in POCSO Case Raises Questions A Bombay High Court benchs definition of what constitutes as sexual assault under POCSO has led to outrage among experts of child safety and survivors | Image credit: Reuters The Bombay High Court judgement has come as a shock not only to survivors but also to child safety and protection experts who feel ...

Activists and child rights bodies have slammed the recent judgement of the Bombay High Court that there is no sexual assault if there is no skin-to-skin contact.

Justice Pushpa Ganediwala of the Nagpur bench of Bombay high court held that there must be skin-on-skin contact with sexual intent for an act to be considered sexual assault. (Representative image) MUMBAI: Activists and child rights bodies have slammed the recent judgement of the Bombay high court that there is no sexual assault if there is no skin-to-skin contact. In a judgement passed on January 19, the Bombay high court has said groping a minors breast without skin-to-skin contact cannot be ...

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NCW to challenge Bombay HC judgment on sexual assault in Supreme Court By Mansoor|   Published: 25th January 2021 9:51 pm IST Photo: National Commisson for Woman (NCW) (File Photo) New Delhi: The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Monday said it will challenge in the Supreme Court a Bombay High Court judgment that said groping without “skin-to-skin” contact is not sexual assault as defined under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The judgment will not...

The body of a 20-year-old college student was found floating in Patratu Dam in ​​Ramgarh district in Tuesday, the police said. Patratu SDPO Prakash Chandra said they have identified the victim, who was a first-year student of Hazaribagh Medical College and a resident of Lohia Nagar in Godda. Chandra said the girl’s body in jeans and jacket was tied with a rope when it was found floating near Uchringa area. Her body was first spotted by local residents who immediately informed the matter t...

NIOS Exams 2021: Students In October Session Request For Automatic Promotion National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) exams scheduled for October-November 2020 were postponed to January-December 2021 prompting the students to request for automatic promotion to the next session so they could prepare for entrance examinations. Education | Written By Bhoomika Aggarwal | Updated: Jan 10, 2021 4:25 pm IST ...

Police in Jharkhands Ramgarh hitches stretcher carrying accident victims body to patrol van Police in Jharkhands Ramgarh hitches stretcher carrying accident victims body to patrol van Visuals of the incident show a police patrolling vehicle in Jharkhands Ramgarh towing a stretcher carrying the dead body of an accident victim all the way to the Mandu police station, a distance of a little over 1 km. advertisement Patrolling van dragging the stretcher in Jharkhands Ramgarh (Photo Credits; Satyaje...

Huge quantity of banned Gutka seized in Ramgarh, four arrested Ramgarh, Dec 29 (UNI) The district police has seized huge quantity of banned Gutkha from separate police stations area of this district and has arrested four men in this connection. Ramgarh SP Prabhat Kumar on Tuesday said that a team led by DSP Headquarters Prakash Soy conducted raids at two shops located under Gola Police Station area and seized huge quantity of the banned substance after which two men were arrested. Shillong, Ma...

RAUTAHAT: Janata Samajwadi Party took to the streets in Rautahat’s headquarters Gaur to protest against PM Oli’s decision of Lower House dissolution, on Wednesday. Janata Samajwadi Party holds a demonstration aganist PM Oli’s decision of house dissolution, in Gaur, Rautahat, on Wednesday, December 23, 2020. Photo: Prabhat Kumar Jha/THT Photo: Prabhat Kumar Jha/THT The Nepal Communist Party (NCP), under the leadership of two chairpersons Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Daha...