Protection of Child in India from Sexual Abuse With Special Reference to Pocso Act. 2012

This research study is primarily focused on discovering various magnitudes of child sexual abuse forguaranteeing justice. India introduced the POCSO Act, 2012 to protect children from sexual assaults,sexual harassment and pornography and enabled special provisions such as the establishment of theSpecial Courts for speedy trials of these crimes. In this research endeavour, efforts have been put forthto review a plethora of court judgments related to child sexual abuse cases to evaluate the execution ofvarious provisions of the special enactment and their impact on the delivery of justice. The threeprongedaims of the study include: (i) To study the retort of the criminal justice system to Child SexualAbuse Cases. (ii) To Study the functioning and impact of the POCSO Act, 2012, and (iii) To recognizepolicies to boost justice by exercising legal provisions.