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TRENDING TOPICS:#Telangana#IPL#Infosys#AAP#Dedh Ishqiya#Jilla#Uday Kiran#Devyani Khobragade#Saifai Main menu HomeNewsBusiness/TechCrimeCurrent AffairsPoliticsWorldStatesAndhra PradeshTamil NaduKarnatakaKeralaInterviewsEntertainmentBollywoodHollywoodKollywoodMollywoodSandalwoodTollywoodTV/MusicMovie ReviewsSportsCricketFootballOther SportsTennisMotor SportsLifestyleHealth & Well beingRelationshipsFashion/BeautyFoodTravelBooks/ ArtPets/EnvironmentOffbeatCommentaryGalleriesAstroguidemoreNewswrap2013 Year EnderDC 75 YearsMatrimonial Breaking NewsSnoopgate: Gujarat calls former IPS officer Pradeep Sharma 'corrupt' You are hereHome » News » CrimeSupreme Court: Abuse no child’s play Banglore: Though cases of sexual abuse against children are being registered under the stringent Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (Pocso) 2012, the State government has not set up special courts to try them even one year after the implementation of the Act.
The tardy attitude of the government has earned the ire of the Supreme Court, which has reportedly pulled up the State government for not setting up special courts to try cases under Pocso.
“The Supreme Court has asked us why we have not set up special courts to try Pocso cases and we have written to the Department of Women and Child Development on the issue. We are expecting a reply by next week,” said Chairperson of the Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KSCPCR), Umesh Aradhya. He added that in the absence of special courts these cases are being tried by the district courts.
According to sources in the Department of Women & Child Development (DWCD) district courts have been designated as courts to try these cases and there is one children’s court in Bengaluru in the civil court complex.
“We feel that the civil court complex is not a child sensitive area and hence the Department has decided to write to the High Court to set up a special court to try Pocso cases. The number of Pocso cases is on the rise and we need to set up special courts,” said a DWCD officer on condition of anonymity.
In response to the alarming number of sexual offences against children, the Centre had implemented Pocso in November 2012 to protect children from “sexual assault, sexual harassment, and pornography and provide for establishment of special courts for trial of such offences and for matters connected therewith.”
“Around 480 cases have been registered under Pocso Act between November 2012 and end October 2013 in Karnataka. But we do not have statistics on the number of cases, which may have been chargesheeted,” said the Co-ordinator of the Unicef-supported State-run gender sensitization project Roveena Bastian. According to the DWCD 178 cases were registered between November 2012 and June 2013.
Pocso is a gender neutral law. It gives detailed outline of all kinds of sexual offences and includes penetrative non penetrative, sexual innuendoes, showing pornography to children as cognizable crimes.
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