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The Supreme Court connected Saturday (December 13, 2025) protected a karate teacher from apprehension successful a lawsuit filed nether the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) by a erstwhile student.
A Bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kumar directed the Kerala Police not to apprehension the martial arts teacher until the adjacent day of proceeding successful the apical tribunal connected February 18, 2026.
The tribunal ordered the antheral to “scrupulously abide” by the conditions imposed nether Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, chiefly requiring him to cooperate with the constabulary probe and marque himself disposable for interrogation successful transportation with the lawsuit registered astatine Vadakara successful Kerala.
The 46-year-old man, represented by advocator Vipin Nair, was granted extortion from coercive enactment contempt some the proceedings tribunal and the State High Court refusing him anticipatory bail.
The petitioner argued earlier the apical tribunal that the FIR was lodged 5 years aft the alleged incidental owing to idiosyncratic enmity and nonrecreational rivalry. Mr. Nair submitted that his lawsuit had implicit 20 years of acquisition successful the martial arts tract and had taught hundreds of students without immoderate blemish connected his reputation. He contended that the lawsuit was patently mendacious and motivated. The Bench issued announcement to the State of Kerala.
The petition described the transgression allegations arsenic an “alarming lawsuit of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO) being misused by a erstwhile pupil to people and implicate a teacher for idiosyncratic motives”.
“What was enacted arsenic a protective statute for safeguarding children from genuine intersexual battle has successful the contiguous lawsuit been weaponised to settee scores and destruct the estimation of the petitioner. Rather than the complainant requiring ineligible protection, it is the petitioner, a karate teacher aged 46 years with an unblemished grounds spanning implicit 2 decades, who present requires extortion from a motivated, belated and vindictive prosecution,” the petition contended.
Referring to a Supreme Court judgement connected the interaction of transgression accusations connected a teacher’s reputation, the petitioner quoted that “reputation is earned by a teacher upon rendering work implicit the years and an accusation similar the contiguous would stay arsenic an indelible people marring his full aboriginal life”.
