{"id":147887,"date":"2021-11-20T20:59:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T15:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=147887"},"modified":"2021-11-22T09:02:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T03:32:11","slug":"error-corrected-regarding-pocso-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/error-corrected-regarding-pocso-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Error corrected: Regarding POCSO Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: Recently, the Supreme Court has set aside the controversial judgment of the Bombay HC which held that \u2018skin-to-skin\u2019 contact is necessary for an act to be classified as sexual assault under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences(POCSO) Act.<\/p>\n<h5>About the judgment<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Read here<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sexual-intent-not-skin-to-skin-contact-key-sc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sexual intent, not skin-to-skin contact, key: SC<\/a><\/p>\n<h5>About the POCSO Act<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Read here<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-pocso-act-and-associated-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The POCSO Act and associated issues<\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Why the Bombay High Court verdict is controversial?<\/h5>\n<p>-Ignored the basic fact that the entire Act is aimed at penalising actions rooted in &#8216;sexual intent&#8217;. So the judgment is out of sync with the legislative intent behind the enactment of stringent law.<\/p>\n<p>-The law is to protect children based on principles found in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.<\/p>\n<p>-Restricting the interpretation of the words \u2018touch\u2019 or \u2018physical contact\u2019 to \u2018skin to skin contact&#8217; would be a narrow and pedantic interpretation of Section 7 of the POCSO Act.<\/p>\n<p>So, the Supreme Court verdict ensured that the core ingredient of a sexual offence is the \u201csexual intent\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: This post is based on the article \u201c<strong>Error corrected<\/strong>\u201d published in\u00a0<b>The Hindu\u00a0<\/b>on\u00a0<strong>20th November 2021<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Recently, the Supreme Court has set aside the controversial judgment of the Bombay HC which held that \u2018skin-to-skin\u2019 contact is necessary for an act to be classified as sexual assault under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences(POCSO) Act. About the judgment Read here: Sexual intent, not skin-to-skin contact, key: SC About the POCSO&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/error-corrected-regarding-pocso-act\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Error corrected: Regarding POCSO Act<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-147887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704904951},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}