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shekar sharma   30 October 2024

Protection of children from sexual offences (pocso) act, 2012

A lady named Tejaswini faced some s*xual abuse when she was just 7 years old and nobody knew about this as she did not have enough information regarding what happened to her in actuality. Now when she is mature enough, she is in a healthy marriage with Shekhar who understands her well and supports her in every possible manner. She is afraid to tell him about the abuse she suffered in childhood as the one who harassed her is a family member of hers. After finding out all this situation, her husband, Shekhar, wants to file a complaint against the harasser to get him punished. What legal measures the couple can take in this situation as the incident happened such a long ago?



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P. Venu (Advocate)     30 October 2024

FIR could be filed. However, the victim is the prime witness in the proceedings and the experience could be quite traumatic as well.

T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate (Advocate)     30 October 2024

It will be too late to file a criminal case because there can be no evidence to prove her tale if it is presumed to be true.

She has to lodge a criminal complaint with the local police and see how she can establish her story before police

Real Soul.... (LEGAL)     31 October 2024

She can very well file an FIR and proceed with criminal complaint, she should lodge the FIR so as to punish the criminal, such socail evils should be certainly bought to justice


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