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POCSO Act

POCSO Act 2012 UPSC: Key Provisions & SC Debate

Introduction-POCSO Act India has seen an increase in the number of reported cases of sexual crimes committed against children in the decade leading up to 2012. The law in place to protect children from sexual offenders at the time (the IPC of 1860) did not adequately describe what constituted a sexual crime against children and […]

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Tribunals

Tribunals in India: SC Strikes Down Provisions, Articles 323A–323B Explained

Introduction Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: “An independent judiciary is the soul of our Constitution. The Supreme Court has recently invalidated parts of the Tribunals Reforms Act, 2021, finding that many provisions were a re-enactment of the constitutionally void Ordinance of the same name, invalidated in the Madras Bar Association case. The Court found that these provisions

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