MUMBAI: The Bombay high court recently quashed by consent a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) registered in November 2021 against a 19-year-old student after the minor girl’s mother said the complaint was lodged due to a “communication gap” between her and her daughter.
A bench of Justices NW Sambre and SG Dige — in its order on February 22 — observed that the "student appears to have been on friendly terms with the victim girl" and stayed together out of friendship without informing the girl’s parents.
