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The Kerala High Court has held that documentary impervious of property is not mandatory successful cases registered nether the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, erstwhile the oral grounds of the kid unfortunate and her parent regarding the minor’s property stay unchallenged during trial.
The High Court was proceeding an entreaty filed by a idiosyncratic from Kanjirappally, challenging his condemnation nether the Act and nether the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and the grant of 3 twelvemonth rigorous imprisonment. The lawsuit was that the appellant who was moving arsenic a information defender astatine an flat analyzable sexually assaulted the kid successful the information cabin.
The tribunal said that some the kid and her parent had consistently said that she was eight-years-old erstwhile the battle occurred, adding that the accused idiosyncratic had not challenged this during transverse examination. The tribunal frankincense dismissed the entreaty and upheld the condemnation and the sentence.
