{"id":2621,"date":"2026-08-12T05:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T05:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2026-08-13T05:29:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:29:05","slug":"kerala-high-court-sexual-assault-case-involving-a-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/kerala-high-court-sexual-assault-case-involving-a-minor\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala High Court \u2014 Sexual-assault case involving a minor\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ernakulam: The Kerala High Court considered a case involving allegations of sexual assault of a minor by her father. The Court held that such a criminal case cannot simply be settled or withdrawn by the mother, emphasizing the seriousness of offences against children.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Action to be&nbsp;taken:<\/strong>&nbsp;Authorities should ensure a thorough, impartial investigation, protect the child&#8217;s identity and safety, and provide&nbsp;appropriate legal&nbsp;and psychological support. Proceedings should follow the POCSO Act and due process.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernakulam: The Kerala High Court considered a case involving allegations of sexual assault of a minor by her father. The Court held that such a criminal case cannot simply be settled or withdrawn by the mother, emphasizing the seriousness of offences against children.\u00a0 Action to be&nbsp;taken:&nbsp;Authorities should ensure a thorough, impartial investigation, protect the child&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kerala-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2624,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions\/2624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}