POCSO Act : everything you need to know #justlearnlaw

POCSO Act : everything you need to know

The POCSO Act, 2012 came into force with effect from November 14, 2012, along with the Rules framed thereafter. The Act is a comprehensive law enacted with the objective of protecting children from a slew of sexual offences like sexual assault, sexual harassment and pornography while safeguarding the interests of the child at every stage of the judicial process by introducing a child-friendly mechanism for reporting, recording of evidence, investigation and speedy trial of offences through special courts.

This law defines a child as any person below the age of 18 years. It defines different forms of sexual offences including penetrative and non-penetrative assault, and even sexual harassment and pornography.
Three major takeaways from rules

Any children housing institution or coming in regular contact with them is required to conduct a periodic police verification and a thorough background check of each employee who interacts with a child.
An institution must give special regular training in order to sensitise its employees on child safety and their protection.
More importantly, it has to adopt a child protection policy that is based on the principle of zero tolerance to violence against children.

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