New Delhi: Pointing the clear conflict between the Muslim personal law and POCSO act, the Delhi High Court on last day acquitted a 18-year-old Muslim man who faced charges under section of POCSO act for marrying a 15-year-old minor girl.
The FIR was filed under the sections of POCSO act based on a complaint by the girl's mother who said that the boy kidnapped the girl. Later the girl was sent to a rescue shelter after she refused to go along with her parents.
The Muslim personal law allows the legal marriage of 15-year-old girl and the court pointed that POCSO Act was inadequate from stopping the sexual exploitation of minor girls.
The FIR was filed under the sections of POCSO act based on a complaint by the girl's mother who said that the boy kidnapped the girl. Later the girl was sent to a rescue shelter after she refused to go along with her parents.
The Muslim personal law allows the legal marriage of 15-year-old girl and the court pointed that POCSO Act was inadequate from stopping the sexual exploitation of minor girls.
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