{"id":2628,"date":"2026-08-12T05:36:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T05:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2026-08-13T05:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:42:14","slug":"kozhikode-pocso-case-court-acquittal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/kozhikode-pocso-case-court-acquittal\/","title":{"rendered":"Kozhikode POCSO case \u2013 Court acquittal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kozhikode: A man who had spent 83 days in jail in a POCSO case was acquitted by the court after the evidence did not&nbsp;establish&nbsp;sexual assault. The report says the medical examination did not&nbsp;establish&nbsp;sexual abuse, and the child&nbsp;reportedly told&nbsp;the court that she had only signed a complaint prepared by her grandmother.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Action to be taken<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The police should conduct a&nbsp;fair,&nbsp;prompt&nbsp;and evidence-based investigation, while ensuring the safety, privacy and dignity of the woman\/child involved. The survivor should be provided access to&nbsp;appropriate legal,&nbsp;psychological&nbsp;and social support, and the accused should be dealt with strictly according to law if the evidence&nbsp;establishes&nbsp;the offence. In cases involving children, authorities should follow the&nbsp;POCSO Act&nbsp;and ensure child-friendly procedures. Police should also take preventive measures,&nbsp;strengthen monitoring in vulnerable areas, and create awareness so that similar offences can be reported quickly and prevented.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kozhikode: A man who had spent 83 days in jail in a POCSO case was acquitted by the court after the evidence did not&nbsp;establish&nbsp;sexual assault. The report says the medical examination did not&nbsp;establish&nbsp;sexual abuse, and the child&nbsp;reportedly told&nbsp;the court that she had only signed a complaint prepared by her grandmother.&nbsp; Action to be taken&nbsp; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2628","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\/2628","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=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2630,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions\/2630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}