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Child sex assault: Govt gets a week to file report on compensation

The New Indian Express Coimbatore

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March 11, 2025

The Madras HC has granted a week's time to the state government to file a report on compensation to be paid to a minor girl who was subjected to sexual assault in Chennai.

- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Madurai

A division bench of Justices R Subramanian and G Arul Murugan, while hearing a suo motu case and a habeas corpus petition on the sexual assault of the child, directed the state government to submit the report by Monday on the compensation to be paid under the provisions of the Pocso Act.

Meanwhile, Additional Public Prosecutor E Raj Thilak, representing the police, filed two reports in sealed cover regarding the probe into the cases relating to the sexual assault and the leakage of the audio of the victim on social media. He submitted that the probe into the leakage was still on.

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