Brijbhanu Barua
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127 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
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In Chennai, on India's southeast coast, Vidya Reddy at Tuleer has been watching the same pattern unfold as Khushi has.
She spent more than 20 years alongside children and their families as they navigate the police, doctors and courts.
When the case finally reached the courts in Tamil Nadu, judges treated it as teenage romance rather than a sexual offence and threw it out.
Another kind of case Vidya sees doesn't start with a complaint at all.
It starts with a medical examination at a clinic.
So what actually happens to a teenage boy in a consenting relationship when he's arrested on the Poxo?
So let's say both persons involved are minor.
It usually then goes through the juvenile justice system.
There would be a juvenile board set up.
And even when they are convicted and punished, they will have to go to the juvenile remand home until they attain the age of 18.
And after 18, if the punishment is still left, then they are transferred to the adult prisons.
The sentences are very harsh as well.
And especially if, let's say, there is repetitive sexual violence, which is usually the case in consensual cases, because, of course, you, let's say, have several sexual activities among yourself, then the punishment multiplies as well.
Certainly, you won't get bail from the court.
90% of cases do not get to the trial stage on time, which means you will be behind prison walls for a longer duration.
It might take one year, two years, three years, five years, just for your case to get on the trial stage.
Bangalore lawyer Fiba Nisha has met young men in a special home for boys charged under POCSO.
Those boys aren't just losing a few months of school.
For some of them, the sentence stretches across almost their entire young adulthood.
But despite what she's seen happen to these boys, FIBA doesn't want POC so weakened.
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