The Supreme Court, exercising its plenary powers, has invoked Article 142 of the Constitution to quash proceedings under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act against a man who had entered into a sexual relationship with a girl when she was a minor and later married her. The court said the act “was not the result of lust but love.”
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A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and A G Masih noted that the woman, now the man’s wife, had stated she wa
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