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'Physical relations not always sexual assault'
The Free Press Journal
|December 30, 2024
The Delhi High Court has acquitted a man in a POCSO case, saying the use of phrase 'physical relations' by the minor survivor cannot automatically mean sexual assault.
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A bench of Justices Prathiba M Singh and Amit Sharma allowed the appeal by the accused, who was awarded imprisonment for the remainder of his life, and observed that it was unclear how the trial court concluded that there was any sexual assau
This story is from the December 30, 2024 edition of The Free Press Journal.
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