IG-level Probe Ordered Into Alleged Sexual Abuse of Minor Boy by Mother in Kerala
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An IG-level probe was ordered on Sunday into a POCSO case booked against a woman in Kerala for alleged sexual abuse of her teenaged son, after his sibling claimed that their father forced his brother to make the charge. The 37-year-old woman of four children was recently arrested on the charge of sexually abusing her 14-year-old son, following a report by the District Child Welfare Committee based on a complaint by her estranged husband. We received a complaint from the father of the child and forwarded it to the Child Protection Committee. An FIR was registered against the mother after getting the report from the committee… We have recorded the statement of the child as well, police told PTI. The woman has been remanded to judicial custody by a court.
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Leader of the Opposition Ramesh Chennithala on Wednesday said the High Court had excoriated the State police for its botched investigation that resulted in the acquittal of three persons responsible for the sexual exploitation and subsequent suicide of two minor Dalit girls, both sisters, at Walayar in Palakkad in 2017.
It had rectified the wrong by ordering a reinvestigation in the case. The High Court had cancelled the acquittal of the three suspects in the crime.
The State police had come under withering criticism from across the political spectrum after a special court for the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) set the accused free for want of evidence and prosecution failure.