India Turning Unsafe For Children? In 2016, More Than One Lakh Children Faced Sexual Assault

Sexual assault cases involving child victims rose to over one lakh in 2016 across the country and only 229 of them were adjudicated upon by trial courts in that year, the Supreme Court has been informed.

The figure were brought recently to the notice of a bench, headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, which asked the Registrar Generals of high courts across the country to collect and collate data on pending cases of sexual offences against children as victims lodged under stringent Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The Act provides that such cases have to be decided within a year after the trial court takes cognisance of the charge sheet.

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