LEGISLATIVE AND LEGAL STUDY ABOUT POCSO ACT, 2012

Best Citation – Shubham Kumar Jha, Legislative and Legal Study about POCSO Act, 2012, 1 LIU & 33 (2022)

ABSTRACT

A very famous quote said by Nelson Mandela, “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” Basically, we all know children are the future of our human mankind, we have to treat and teach them in the best way for future as much as we can. But there are also many ill peoples living in the society who are always ready for damaging the beauty of mankind. After many incidents of child sexual abuse reported in the world and also in India, then the demand of the a separate law for children’s increased in many countries as well as in India, and in 2012 the government of India has taken these types of offences seriously and enacted a new act, POCSO Act, 2012. So, in this following article we are going to study about the need of POCSO Act and how this act came into existence. Also, we do a complete legislative and legal study of this act and related laws. We are also going to study few cases after which the legislators drafted and enacted this POCSO Act, 2012.

Keywords: Legislative, legal, POCSO Act, Children