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BHOOMIKA JAINAIR 331· 2025

Question Q.8)GS2GS2

The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 falls short of achieving its intended objectives. Comment.

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Main Body

The POCSO, 2012 Act has registered 2.4 lakh + cases till 2022 CNCRF data , yet falls short of objectives.

Success of POCSO, 2012:

1Framework for complaint = 2.4 lakh+ till 2022
2Punitive measure against perpetrators
3Provisions for Fast Track courts = early justice
4Uniform legal mechanism = to see ancestral to gender neutrality help in equal weight = clause against harassment is igneous news.

yet, falls short:-

1Limited awareness = could not limit some against
2Could not address some =

children = Eg Bihare sheltersome worst case awareness

wait case

3Delay in justice = limited capacity of Fast Track Court.
4Juvenile delinquency burden = Eg Allahabad Bais Jduure room = young boys aging girls
5Penalize consensual adolescent relations = weaponise appropriation of law
6Narrow in scope of definition of "child" = discrepancy with other laws (new need in BNS)
7Did not address online awareness = 80% girl children in pornographic websites displaces
8Could not address new age crimes = Eg children's displaces
way awareness generationless education in schoolsgood touch/Bad touchFoster dispensation of races
Reform to address new-age crime.
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Diagram

Flow diagram showing: awareness generation → less education in schools → good touch/Bad touch → Foster dispensation of races and Reform to address new-age crime

Topper

BHOOMIKA JAIN

AIR 3312025

Subject & Paper

GS2GS2

Topic

Welfare Schemes for Vulnerable Sections - Performance, Mechanisms, Laws and Institutions

National Commission for Protection of Child Rights

National Commission for Protection of Child Rights

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199

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7

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critical and analytical

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