Physical relations cannot automatically mean sexual assault
Millennium Post Delhi|December 30 2024
‘Even the use of the words samband banaya’ is not sufficient to establish an offence under POCSO’
Physical relations cannot automatically mean sexual assault

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has acquitted a man in a POCSO case, saying the use of phrase 'physical relations' by the minor survivor cannot automatically mean sexual assault.

A bench of Justices Pratibha M Singh and Amit Sharma allowed the appeal by the accused, who was awarded imprisonment for the remainder of his life, and observed that it was unclear how the trial court concluded that there was any sexual assault when the survivor had voluntarily gone with the accused.

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