Denial of Justice to Victims of Child Sexual Abuse Rampant: A Study
Everyday four child victims of sexual offences are denied justice due to closure of their cases by police because of insufficient evidence, according to a new study titled 'Police case disposal pattern: An enquiry into the cases filed under POCSO Act, 2012' by Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation (KSCF).
Key Findings
- Implementation of Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO), is poor on the ground. As many as 89 per cent of the cases of child sexual abuse were awaiting justice at the end of 2019.
- Between 2017 and 2019, there has been an increase in the number of cases ....
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