Latest POCSO court News & Updates

Lucknow, Feb 20 (IANS) Calling it a “rarest of rare” case of unparalleled depravity, a Special POCSO Court in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda, on Friday, sentenced to death a government junior engineer (JE) and his wife after holding them guilty of sexually assaulting as many as 33 children, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) official said. Rambhawan, employed in the Uttar Pradesh Irrigation department, and his wife Durgawati, were sentenced to death for the various offences under the Indian Penal Co…

Bhubaneswar, Feb 17 (IANS) A Special POCSO court in Odisha’s Sambalpur, on Tuesday, sentenced two persons to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) each in two separate cases involving the sexual abuse of minors in the district. “On November 29, 2025, a 10-year-old girl, who had gone to a shop near her residence to buy a packet of snacks, was returning home when the 55-year-old accused Madhusudan Bagarty, who was seated at his residence, forcibly dragged her inside and raped her,” Special Public…

Jaipur, Jan 23 (IANS) The Rajasthan High Court on Friday granted interim protection from arrest to IPL champion and Royal Challengers Bengaluru fast bowler Yash Dayal in connection with a rape case. Justice Ganeshram Meena passed the order while hearing Dayal’s anticipatory bail application and directed him to appear before the investigating officer (IO) by January 30.An FIR has been registered against him at the Sanganer police station in Jaipur. Dayal’s counsel Chandrashekhar Sharma informed…

Bhubaneswar, Jan 6 (IANS) A Special POCSO court in Bargarh district of Odisha on Tuesday sentenced a man to death after finding him guilty of the rape and murder of a six-year-old minor girl in the Paikmal area of the district in November 2024. “On November 15, 2024, at around 9 a.m., the six-year-old girl and her grandfather were at their house when the accused, identified as Prashanta Bag (21), called the victim to go fishing. Bag, along with two other minors, took the girl to a nearby water…