The Hindu·4 min read·medium
A decade of POCSO cases in Telangana: Over half remain pending trial as judicial backlog delays justice
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Lavpreet Kaur
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A decade of data from Telangana reveals that over half of all POCSO cases remain pending trial, significantly delaying justice for child survivors. Legal experts attribute this backlog to the lack of dedicated special courts and judges exclusively assigned to handle child sexual abuse cases.
When a special POCSO court in Hyderabad sentenced a gymnastics and karate coach to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment on June 17 for sexually assaulting a three-and-a-half-year-old girl inside a school's premises, it also highlighted another disturbing reality: it took six years for the child survivor to get justice.
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