Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Thursday deprecated the magistrate courts for their practice of assigning specific dates to each police station for recording victims’ statements, without making an exception for cases registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.
About The POCSO Act
Under the Act, magistrate courts have to record the victim’s statement promptly. Also, the government informed the court that it has issued show cause notices to policemen of Sakinaka station for their behaviour in handling the case initially and allegedly abused the father of a minor rape survivor when he went to register the FIR.
The HC was hearing a petition filed by a mother whose four-year-old child was sexually assaulted on August 13, by a juvenile.
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