NCPCR asks U.P. to appeal Allahabad HC order reducing sexual assault convict’s sentence
The Hindu
Oral sex with a minor is not aggravated sexual assault and only a “lesser” offence, the Allahabad High Court had concluded in the judgment
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has urged the Uttar Pradesh chief secretary to file an appeal against an Allahabad High Court judgement in a sexual assault case involving a minor.
The commission, which is mandated under sections 109 of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 and 44 of POCSO Act, 2012 to monitor the implementation of the Acts, said in a letter that in the case of Sonu Kushwaha v. the state of Uttar Pradesh before the Allahabad High Court, an urgent appeal was necessitated.
"It has been observed by the commission that the observations of the high court in the present matter for commutation of sentence of the accused from 10 years to seven years and the offence from aggravated penetrative sexual assault (sections 5 and 6) to penetrative sexual assault (sections 3 and 4) seems to be not as per the letter and spirit of the POCSO Act, 2012," the letter said.
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