HC quashes POCSO case against youth who married ‘survivor’

The Kerala High Court has quashed a lawsuit registered against a younker nether the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act successful Pathanamtitta, stating that helium aboriginal joined the miss erstwhile she became a major, and they were presently starring a blessed joined life.

A Bench of Justice C. Pratheep Kumar passed the bid connected a plea by the younker who had been charged with sexually assaulting the miss erstwhile she was a minor, astatine his house. He submitted that they were present starring a blessed joined beingness aft helium joined her successful October 2025, 4 months aft the incidental and aft she became a major. The girl, his wife, besides submitted an affidavit seeking to quash the case.

The tribunal referred to decisions by the High Court and the Supreme Court connected the substance and noted that the lives of the survivor, the accused person, and immoderate kid calved to them from matrimony would beryllium adversely affected, if transgression proceedings were not terminated. But quashing of the proceedings would beforehand harmony, peace, and happiness, safeguarding their household beingness and allowed the 23-year-old youth’s plea to quash the case.