Overview
- An Indore special POCSO court gave a 42-year-old stepfather double life imprisonment for repeated assault of his minor stepdaughter and recommended Rs 3 lakh compensation.
- A fast-track court in Badshahpur, Gurugram, sentenced a 21-year-old to 20 years’ rigorous imprisonment for raping a seven-year-old boy, trying him as an adult on a juvenile board’s recommendation and fining him Rs 30,000.
- Two Uttar Pradesh cases concluded with 20-year terms: a Meerut court imposed rigorous imprisonment and a Rs 70,000 fine in a 2019 kidnapping-rape case, while a Shamli court sentenced Shubham for a 2009 abduction-rape and fined him Rs 60,000.
- In West Bengal’s Nadia district, a Ranaghat special POCSO court sentenced a 55-year-old to 20 years for raping a 12-year-old during Durga Puja 2021 and directed compensation under the Victim Compensation Scheme.
- North Bengal courts issued separate 20-year sentences: in English Bazar, elderly offender Masiuddin Sabji was convicted for assaulting two minors with Rs 1 lakh compensation ordered for each, and in Jalpaiguri an accused received two 20-year terms for raping two sisters.