Mockery of the POCSO Act; Maulana involves court docket and marries rape sufferer, a minor, to her rapist

Just a number of days after the nation celebrated International Women’s Day, information of a weird marriage has come out of Bihar’s Samastipur which is a large disservice to the reason for girls empowerment and stopping crimes in opposition to girls. In an unlucky flip of occasions, a Maulana got here to a neighborhood court docket and married off a rape sufferer, a minor, to her rapist to save lots of the accused from the punishment thereby exposing severe loopholes within the POCSO act.In a transfer that may be seen as making an absolute mockery of the POCSO Act and its laws, Samastipur noticed an accused of raping a minor being married off to the sufferer within the court docket premises by a Maulana.The accused, Mohammed Raja noticed the Maulana marry him off to the sufferer, with full rituals in an effort to assist him escape from the punishment.According to media studies, a case of rape with a minor woman was filed a yr in the past within the Mussarighari station space. A case underneath the POCSO Act was registered in opposition to the accused, Mohammed Raha. The native police duly took motion which resulted within the accused getting arrested and despatched to jail. The case was being heard within the POCSO Court the place the accused was married off to the sufferer.It is being reported that this resolution was taken after due consultations with the villagers. At the Samastipur Civil Court advanced, throughout the Nikah ceremony, a big crowd of individuals gathered there to witness the marriage. To the most effective of my data, the incident of marriage in Samastipur court docket is the primary such incident.This case additional highlights severe loopholes within the POCSO Act and is a testomony to the truth that the Act should be tightened as much as stop such mockery of justice. The sufferer now has to undergo from the ignominy of marrying the one who raped her.Recently, Supreme Court on Monday, headed by the bench of the Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, granted interim safety to a 23-year-old authorities worker of Maharashtra, accused of repeatedly committing rape on a minor woman in 2014-15. However, what comes as stunning was the collection of questions put forth by CJI Bobde, which ignited public anger.Read More- “Will you marry her?” Supreme Court asks rapist of a minor woman, grants him interim safety for 4 weeks“Will you marry her?” CJI SA Bobde requested the petitioner’s lawyer when the matter was taken up for listening to while additional suggesting, “You should have thought before seducing and raping the young girl. You knew you are a government servant.”To which Advocate Anand Dilip Langde, the lawyer of the accused replied, “I will take instructions” that means, he’ll ask his shopper and inform the court docket. When the case was taken once more after different issues, the lawyer knowledgeable that it was not doable for the accused to marry her because the petitioner had married another person. The lawyer added that the petitioner initially wished to marry her however she refused.Lately, the POCSO Act has been a flesh within the thorn for the courts of the nation because the interpretation of the regulation has been obscure and at occasions insensitive. Recently, a 25-year-old man accused of raping and impregnating a 16-year-old woman was granted bail after he expressed willingness to marry the minor woman.