NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday requested for main points of circumstances below Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act pending in courts with a view to examine whether a time limit may also be fastened for the of entirety of trials in such circumstances.
The apex courtroom requested legal professional and petitioner Alakh Alok Srivastava, who had approached the courtroom for the treatment of an eight-month-old victim of sexual assault, to furnish the guidelines.
A team of 3 medical doctors, who on Wednesday visited the months-old lady who was once raped in Delhi via her cousin, filed a status document earlier than the SC these days, a day after the courtroom directed AIIMS to in an instant assign two competent medical doctors for her treatment.
The courtroom was once additionally informed that the child was once moved to AIIMS for post-operative care, and that her parents had won Rs 75,000 as period in-between repayment.
Meanwhile, the Centre informed the SC that it was once not in favour of the loss of life penalty to those discovered in charge of kid sexual assault or toddler rape.
"Death penalty is not an answer for everything," further solicitor general PS Narasimha informed the three-judge bench headed via Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra.
Narasimha added that the POCSO Act provides graded punishment for different degrees of brutality in sexual offences in opposition to youngsters.
The SC had on Wednesday stated it was once "very much concerned" about the kid, who needed to go through a three-hour-long surgical treatment due to critical injuries to her non-public parts.
In his petition, Srivastava has sought the pressing framing of guidelines on the investigation and trial of circumstances of rape of youngsters between 0-12 years of age, to make sure they're finished inside of six months from the date of filing of FIR.
"As of now, POCSO Act only provides maximum punishment of life imprisonment. So I have said that rape cases in which there is victim of 0-12 years of age, maximum punishment should be death penalty," Srivastava had earlier informed ANI.
(With inputs from businesses)
The apex courtroom requested legal professional and petitioner Alakh Alok Srivastava, who had approached the courtroom for the treatment of an eight-month-old victim of sexual assault, to furnish the guidelines.
A team of 3 medical doctors, who on Wednesday visited the months-old lady who was once raped in Delhi via her cousin, filed a status document earlier than the SC these days, a day after the courtroom directed AIIMS to in an instant assign two competent medical doctors for her treatment.
The courtroom was once additionally informed that the child was once moved to AIIMS for post-operative care, and that her parents had won Rs 75,000 as period in-between repayment.
Meanwhile, the Centre informed the SC that it was once not in favour of the loss of life penalty to those discovered in charge of kid sexual assault or toddler rape.
"Death penalty is not an answer for everything," further solicitor general PS Narasimha informed the three-judge bench headed via Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra.
Narasimha added that the POCSO Act provides graded punishment for different degrees of brutality in sexual offences in opposition to youngsters.
The SC had on Wednesday stated it was once "very much concerned" about the kid, who needed to go through a three-hour-long surgical treatment due to critical injuries to her non-public parts.
In his petition, Srivastava has sought the pressing framing of guidelines on the investigation and trial of circumstances of rape of youngsters between 0-12 years of age, to make sure they're finished inside of six months from the date of filing of FIR.
"As of now, POCSO Act only provides maximum punishment of life imprisonment. So I have said that rape cases in which there is victim of 0-12 years of age, maximum punishment should be death penalty," Srivastava had earlier informed ANI.
(With inputs from businesses)
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