Delay in FIR leads to acquittal in Pocso case

An “unnatural” year-and-a-half delay in lodging an FIR has led to the acquittal of a 42-year-old deputy income-tax commissioner accused of sexually assaulting his 13-year-old domestic help in 2017. The special POCSO Act court questioned why the child’s family, a member of which was employed in the maternal house of the estranged wife of the accused for decades, did not lodge an FIR immediately after the incident.

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