The Maharashtra government informed the Bombay High Court on Thursday that a circular by the Commissioner of Mumbai Police requiring prior sanction for registering cases under POCSO and for outraging the modesty of women has been withdrawn.
A notification, however, is yet to be issued. A division bench of Justices Nitin Jamdar and NR Borkar however clarified that the subject matter of the petition was assigned to a different bench and hence it was not before them. A petition was filed by a city resident seeking quashing of the circular contending that it was arbitrary.
