Law panel submits reports on age of consent, e-FIRS

The 22nd Law Commission has submitted two reports to the Union law ministry, one on the minimum age of consent under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act and another on the online filing of first information reports (FIRs), panel chairman Ritu Raj Awasthi said on Wednesday.

- Saptarshi Das

 

The announcement came after a high-level meeting in New Delhi.

“We have finalised the report on the Pocso act and another with respect to online FIRs and we have sent the reports to the ministry of law and justice,” said Awasthi, also the former chief justice of the Karnataka high court.

But there was no clarity on when recommendations on simultaneous elections will be finalised. “Still some work is going on, on simultaneous elections. We have not finalised the report. There is no timeline for finalising it,” he told reporters.