A bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela asked the authorities’ counsel to take instructions on the issue and inform it at 2:30 pm.
The court said that once the aggravated offence provision is excluded, the case would fall under Section 3 read with Section 4 of the POCSO Act, which, before the 2019 amendment, prescribed a minimum ...