{"id":3296,"date":"2026-09-15T08:59:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T08:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T11:19:38","slug":"kerala-high-court-allows-prosecution-in-minor-wife-sexual-assault-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/kerala-high-court-allows-prosecution-in-minor-wife-sexual-assault-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala High Court allows prosecution in minor-wife sexual assault case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Palakkad:<\/strong> The Kerala High Court declined to stop criminal proceedings against a man accused of sexually assaulting his wife when she was 17. The court held that POCSO protections apply to a minor even when the alleged offences occur within a marriage. The court&#8217;s observations were limited to the proceedings before it and do not determine the final outcome of the trial.<br><strong>Action to Be Taken<\/strong><br>Children facing sexual abuse should have access to immediate protection, confidential reporting, legal assistance and appropriate support services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palakkad: The Kerala High Court declined to stop criminal proceedings against a man accused of sexually assaulting his wife when she was 17. The court held that POCSO protections apply to a minor even when the alleged offences occur within a marriage. The court&#8217;s observations were limited to the proceedings before it and do not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3296","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\/3296","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=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3297,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions\/3297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}