Patna High Court division bench while hearing a Criminal Appeal filed by Guddu Kumar directed the Registry to identify all such appeals which are pending before the Court and are covered by subsection (4) of Section 374 or sub-section (4) of Section 377 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
The enactment of POCSO Act was to effectively address the heinous crime of sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children, and did not intend to bring within its scope, cases where adolescents were involved "in dense romantic affair":
The Delhi High Court has upheld the judgement of Additional Sessions Judge-1 (POCSO), Shahdara district, Karkardooma Courts, Delhi, whereby a man was convicted for the rape of his eight-year-old daughter.
The Allahabad High Court has rejected the anticipatory bail to a man accused of gangraping a minor, while stating that crime against women is a monstrous burial of dignity in the darkness, and it is against the holy body of a woman and the soul of a society.