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Found this #interesting and some #FactSpitting write up on #quora which is an eye opener on why / how #population explosion is a huge problem! Read the thread below!
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#FakeIdentity and fake #VoterID are being provided to those who have illegally entered into India. Isn't this rigging the #elections ?
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While there is #POCSOAct to protect children from being sexually exploited and to protect them, #PersonalLaws are just taking away that protection from children. This is exactly why #UCC #UniformCivilCode becomes an urgent need.
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#SupremeCourt to continue hearing plea by Attorney General K K Venugopal against the Bombay HC judgement which held that sexual assault offences under the #POCSO would not be attracted if there was no direct 'skin to skin' contact between the accused and the child #SkinToSkin
Senior Advocate Sidharth Luthra argues.

#SupremeCourt #POCSOAct
Sr. Adv. Luthra takes the #SupremeCourt through relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code, reads out Section 349:

A person is said to use force to another if he causes motion, change of motion, or cessation of motion to that other, or if he causes...
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#SupremeCourt to continue hearing plea by Attorney General KK Venugopal against the Bombay High Court decision stating that 'skin to skin' contact was necessary for offence of 'sexual assault' under POCSO Act.

#POCSOAct
Senior Advocate Sidharth Luthra: Out of the four Petitions, before the Court, I appear for the Legal Services Authority. I have also brought on record the trial court records.

#POCSOAct #SupremeCourt
Attorney General KK Venugopal: According to me, the Court has misinterpreted Section 7 of the #POCSOAct.

Question arises that if the child is wearing a blouse, and you press the breast, will it prevent an offence under Section 8?

#POCSOAct #SupremeCourt
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Youth Bar Association of India has a filed a plea in #SupremeCourt today against the #BombayHC order stating that act of pressing the breast of a child aged 12 years without removing her top will not fall within the definition of β€˜sexual assault’ under Section 7 of POCSO Act
BREAKING: Youth Bar Association states that "observations, concerning the modesty of a girl child, which are not only derogatory and defamatory but the same are also in utter disregard to the applicable laws."
#SupremeCourt #bombayHC
The petition states that observations made in the impugned order would have the wide impact on the entire society and public at large. If, the said observations are not set-aside or expunged, it would lower the repute of the entire nation.
#SupremeCourt
#PocsoAct
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