For the hundreds of innocent persons, who are wrongfully prosecuted but later acquitted after years, our justice delivery system takes little pains to make amends.
While the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 was ostensibly introduced to combat child sexual abuse, its overbroad provisions have made it possible to criminalise even consensual sexual acts and has caused judicial discomfort. This column examines three different orders of high courts across the country where such judicial discomfort over the strict