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Under POCSO, consent on trial
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Under POCSO, consent on trial
For over a decade, the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, has served as India’s dedicated law against child sexual abuse. As families invoke it to oppose under-18 consensual inter-caste and inter-faith relationships, Aaratrika Bhaumik finds that courts are now confronting the law’s unintended consequences

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