Overview

• On Monday, Justice M. Nagaprasanna dismissed the woman's plea to quash the FIR, holding there is sufficient material to proceed under the POCSO Act.
• The court clarified that penetrative and aggravated penetrative sexual assault under Sections 4 and 6 can be alleged against women, reading the statute inclusively despite male pronouns in some clauses.
• Arguments citing a four‑year reporting delay, absence of a potency test, or claims that women are only passive in sexual acts were rejected as inadequate grounds to end prosecution.
• The Bengaluru police have filed a chargesheet, and the boy’s statements were recorded by a magistrate and a child protection officer; the case now moves toward trial.
• According to the complaint, assaults were alleged in May–June 2020 when the boy was about 13, the family relocated to Dubai that August, disclosure occurred in 2024 to a therapist, and the HAL police received the complaint in June 2024.