The court docket made the remark whilst granting bail to a boy who married a 17-year-old lady and used to be apprehended beneath the Act enacted in 2012.
NEW DELHI: The twenty second Regulation Fee, which is taking a look into the problem of age of consent, held a gathering with officers of the Girls and Kid Building Ministry not too long ago and sought main points at the matter, assets mentioned on Friday.
Through the years, the Coverage of Kids from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, which defines a kid as an individual elderly underneath 18, has regularly are available in battle with the function of consent in figuring out the character of relationships between youngsters.
Assets mentioned the Regulation Fee held a gathering with the federal government and sought some data at the subject of age of consent.
“We’re coping with the topic. We had a gathering with them to supply some data,” a central authority functionary mentioned.
Closing yr, the Delhi Top Court docket had mentioned that the goal in the back of the POCSO Act used to be to offer protection to kids from sexual exploitation and that it used to be by no means supposed to criminalise consensual romantic relationships between younger adults.
The court docket made the remark whilst granting bail to a boy who married a 17-year-old lady and used to be apprehended beneath the Act enacted in 2012.
The Regulation Fee, which is constituted each 3 years, advises govt on advanced felony problems.
The existing Regulation Fee is headed by means of Justice (retired) Ritu Raj Awasthi.
