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28 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
📢📢 #NEWS: TW - sexual assault on minor

Holding Girl's Hands, Opening Pant Zip Not Sexual Assault: Bombay High Court
#FIIDailyEdit (1/4)

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Justice Pushpa Ganediwala, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court, has observed that holding hands of a minor girl and opening the zip of pants does not fall under the ambit of 'sexual assault' within the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. (2/4)
This is in response to a mothers' report against a 50-year-old man for sexually assaulting and molesting her 5-year-old daughter. (3/4)
The high court pointed out that the definition under the POCSO Act says that there has to be "physical contact with sexual intent without penetration" for an act to be considered "sexual assault". (4/4)

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