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Recently, Allahabad High Court has said that a penetrative sexual assault on a 10-year-old boy by an offender did not amount to an aggravated form of the crime.
(Note: The incident and registration of complaint happened in 2016. Hence the judgment was based on POCSO Act, 2012 and not on the POSCO (Amendment) Act, 2019 as its provisions does not apply retrospectively)
NCPCR was set up in March 2007 under the Commissions for Protection of Child Rights (CPCR) Act, 2005.It is a statutory body under the administrative control of the Ministry of Women & Child Development.
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