Judicial Affirmation: The Karnataka High Court (in a 2025 ruling referencing the 2019 Amendment) affirmed that the POCSO Act is a gender-neutral, progressive enactment designed to protect children, ...

1. Short title and commencement.— (1) This Act may be called the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act, 2019. (2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government ...

The Court’s discussion implicitly addresses a practical enforcement gap: link-based consumption and transient viewing are common vectors in online child exploitation ecosystems, and a purely ...

Police officers can record dying declarations in emergency situations, but with stricter identification requirements. The Supreme Court has clarified that "dying declaration does not become ...

Where a single mortgage deed secures liabilities arising out of multiple independent loan agreements, each constituting a separate and enforceable transaction and each requiring creation of security, ...

Maharashtra has formally operationalised “community service” as a court-imposed punishment for a defined set of minor offences by notifying the Maharashtra (Community Services as Punishment for ...

Waris (since deceased) opened fire from his rifle. Section 482 CrPC numbered as Criminal Misc. Application No. Court are in appeal before us. Three others have passed away. and AAG for the respondent ...

173. Information in cognizable cases.—(1) Every information relating to the commission of a cognizable offence, irrespective of the area where the offence is committed, may be given orally or by ...

Dated: November 29, 2019. Citation: AIR 2020 SC 1,2019 SCC OnLine SC 1532.

51. As a result, the Appellant is entitled to a direction for release from custody by applying the ratio of the judgment rendered by this Court in the case of Pankaj Bansal (supra).

Marriage and Separation: Rousanara Begum and S.K. Salahuddin were married on August 28, 2005. Due to escalating matrimonial ...

The Repealing and Amending Bill, 2025 (Bill No. 193 of 2025, as introduced in Lok Sabha) is a periodic “clean-up” measure: it repeals enactments that have ceased to be in force/are obsolete and ...