20-Year Sentence Upheld for Man Convicted Under Section 377 IPC & POCSO for Assaulting 6-Year-Old Boy: Karnataka High Court
The Karnataka High Court has upheld the 20-year rigorous imprisonment sentence awarded to Ansair Khasim Jingru, a 27-year-old man, for committing unnatural sexual assault on a six-year-old boy. The trial court's conviction under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Sections 4 and 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 was challenged by the convict in CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.100081/2023, but the High Court…
