Supreme Court Holds High Court Erred in Retrospectively Applying 2019 POCSO Amendment to Sentence Accused in Child Sexual Assault Case. Pre-2019 Section 6 of POCSO Act, Not Amended Section, Applies to Offence Committed in 2016, as Article 20(1) Bars Retroactive Penal Enhancement.
1 Jan 1970The case arose from an incident on 17.02.2016 in which a three-year-old girl was subjected to aggravated penetrative sexual assault. The victim's fath...
