New Delhi: The apex court will pronounce a landmark verdict on whether the POCSO act will be applicable without skin to skin contact on Thursday. A bench of Justices UU Lalit, S Ravindra Bhatt and Bela M Trivedi reserved its verdict on September 30 after hearing arguments from all parties in the case.
In fact, a Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court acquitted an accused of sexual assault, saying that touching private parts of a minor without skin to skin contact does not come under the POCSO law. Attorney General KK Venugopal had raised the issue in the Supreme Court. The apex court had asked Attorney General KK Venugopal to file a petition on the matter. The petition was then supported by hearing petitions filed by several other parties including the Maharashtra State Commission for Women, the Maharashtra government. The hearing of the case was completed on September 30.
During the hearing, the petitioners had said in the court that the high court's verdict meant that if there is no direct skin to skin contact between the accused and the victim of sexual assault, then sexual harassment is not a case under the POCSO law. Venugopal had said during the hearing that the court's decision would give free hand to the adulterers and make it very complicated and sensitive to punish them.
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