New Delhi, Mar 12: Hearing a plea for deterrent punishment for defiling children, the Supreme
Court on Monday asked its registry to write and ask all the state High Courts
to gather data with respect to the pendency of POCSO cases across the nation.
The bench was headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra
and also comprised Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud .
It heard a plea filed by a lawyer, Alakh Alok Srivastava, seeking a direction from the apex court to frame appropriate guidelines to provide that the investigation and trial of the cases involving rape of children of 01 month to 12 years of age group under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, should be expeditiously disposed off.
Petitioner lawyer, Srivastava, had filed the plea before the Supreme Court, in connection with a eight-month-old girl, who was allegedly sexually assaulted by her cousin. He submitted to the apex court that the girl was now stable and on February 5 was discharged from the hospital. But on April 7 another surgery has to be done on her.
Srivastava had also sought appropriate order and direction to the respondents to urgently amend the provisions of the POCSO Act, 2012, so as to provide maximum punishment of death penalty for commission of offence of rape of children of 01 month to 12 years of age group, so that it can act as a deterrent. UNI
It heard a plea filed by a lawyer, Alakh Alok Srivastava, seeking a direction from the apex court to frame appropriate guidelines to provide that the investigation and trial of the cases involving rape of children of 01 month to 12 years of age group under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, should be expeditiously disposed off.
Petitioner lawyer, Srivastava, had filed the plea before the Supreme Court, in connection with a eight-month-old girl, who was allegedly sexually assaulted by her cousin. He submitted to the apex court that the girl was now stable and on February 5 was discharged from the hospital. But on April 7 another surgery has to be done on her.
Srivastava had also sought appropriate order and direction to the respondents to urgently amend the provisions of the POCSO Act, 2012, so as to provide maximum punishment of death penalty for commission of offence of rape of children of 01 month to 12 years of age group, so that it can act as a deterrent. UNI
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