Law of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences

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Description
* An exhaustive, analytical and incisive commentary on The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, alongwith Rules thereunder as amended up-to-date together with useful material like Relevant Acts, Extracts from Acts, Rules, Guidelines, Schemes, etc., incorporating copious references to cases decided by the Supreme Court and High Courts, reported and unreported, upto December 2022.
* A pointed attention has been devoted to definition clause dealing with age of child-victim and other contentious issues like the question whether age of consent should be reduced from 18 years to 16 years for the purpose of POCSO Act.
* References to All India Law Journals and Local Law Journals with maximum equivalent citations provided.
* Maximum number of subject-headings drawn for better understanding of the law.
* An exhaustive Subject Index provided at the end for ease of reference to the law point a reader is looking for.
* Cases decided by the Supreme Court dealt with more elaborately. Further, no case of Supreme Court left out.
* Conflict between cases decided by various High Courts has been specially pointed out. Provisions in regard to sentencing elaborately discussed
* The Act in hand being of recent origin a number of law points not covered by decided cases explained by the author with the help of analogous laws
* In a nutshell, the book offers an exhaustive commentary based on almost all reported and unreported cases on the POCSO Act resulting in over 1400 pages' compilation on the subject. It will not be out of place to state that over 2200 cases have been reported (about 5000 references) with analytical comments thereon. The number of referred cases is substantially more than those dealt with by any other author on the subject.
* For ease of handy reference thinner paper of finest quality has been used to make the book at once compact as well as exhaustive one
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Table of Contents
PART -1 Commentary on the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012
Chapter - I Preliminary
Chapter - II Sexual Offences Against Children
Chapter - III Using Child for Pornographic Purposes and Punishment Therefor
Chapter - IV Abetment of and Attempt to Commit an Offence
Chapter - V Procedure for Reporting of Cases
Chapter - VI Procedures for Recording Statement of the Child
Chapter - VII Special Courts
Chapter - VIII Procedure and Powers of Special Courts and Recording of Evidence
Chapter - IX Miscellaneous
PART -2 Relevant Bare Acts, Extracts from Acts, Rules, Guidelines and Schemes
• The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012
• The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Rules, 2020
• Extracts from selected Acts
* Information Technology Act (Relevant Sections)
* Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Relevant Sections).......
* The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Relevant Sections)
* Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (Relevant Sections)..
• Model Guidelines under Section 39 of The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences
• The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015
• The Commissions for Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005
• The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006
• The National Policy for Children, 2013
• Guidelines for Medico-legal care for survivors/victims of sexu violence
• NALSA's Compensation Scheme for Women Victims/Survivor of Sexual Assault/other Crimes-2018
• Forensic Medical Examination Report of Age Estimation (Male/ Female)
• National Charter For Children, 2003
Subject and Topic Index
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Author Details
Harsh Tikoo : LL.B. (Delhi University) Advocate, Delhi High Court
Ravi Bhushan Wadhwa : B. Com, LL. M., PGDSM (IIM-K)
Forward By
Vivek K. Tankha : Senior Advocate Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)